On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 16:50, Jon Gaudette wrote: This is great and all > for in this case, when you forget your password, but what about the > security implications of this? Can't just "any ol' user" do this and > gain root privledges? > > Yep. Physical security of a machine is important. You can help a > little by setting a pasword in lilo (and I assume grub) for booting into > singlemode.
the GRUB password is required *only* if you try to edit the boot line to do something other than the default boot. of course, one can bypass this entirely by booting off the CD-ROM in rescue mode -- at that point, only a BIOS password might get in the way. rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
