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From: "David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>
To: david.jay.jackson@wcox.com, Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password?
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:16:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205191416.AA13369654@wcox.com> (raw)

Glynn --
Thanks for you reply
In my experience working in datacenters, anyone includes janitors, and
and $10.00 secruity guards, it still doesn't explain why RedHat has this 
behavior, can you think of another Unix flavor that does this?
Solaris, Slackware and Debain don't?

Thanks again for reply,
David

>
>Why? The root shell is only accessible from the console. Anyone who
>has physical access to the machine can probably do whatever they want
>with it; software security mechanisms aren't much use in that
>situation.


             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-19 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-19 20:16 David Jackson [this message]
2002-05-19 20:58 ` RH7.2: init 1 no password? 1stFlight
2002-05-20  8:24   ` Anatoli Souppes
2002-05-21 14:42   ` Scott Taylor
2002-05-21 14:33 ` Scott Taylor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-21 17:35 David Jackson
2002-05-21 17:50 ` Glynn Clements
2002-05-21 16:47 David Jackson
2002-05-21 17:01 ` Glynn Clements
2002-05-21 14:29 Scott Taylor
     [not found] <200205191355.AA10813750@wcox.com>
2002-05-19 21:08 ` David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
2002-05-19 19:35 David Jackson
2002-05-19 19:54 ` Glynn Clements

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