If you're serious about security, you control physical access to the machine.
If it's only being used for the local monitor/keyboard/mouse, and you have
multiple users, you need to lock the system unit up *and* reconfigure
CTL-ALT-DEL to be ignored.
TomK
At 02:19 PM 3/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>In reply to the infamous question, "Forget your LINUX root password???",
>the reply is:
>
>"The best way to fix this is to start Linux in single user mode (runlevel
>1).
>You can do this by typing linux single at the lilo prompt. After the kernel
>loads you will be left at a bash prompt logged in as root. At this point you
>can change your password with the passwd command. To continue onto
>multi-user
>mode (run level 3) just hit 'ctrl d'. That should do it."
>
>How can an Admin maintain 'any' security???
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