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From: "David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>
Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password?
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:16:20 -0600
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To: david.jay.jackson@wcox.com, Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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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.