From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jackson" Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password? Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:35:06 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205211135.AA120520960@wcox.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, Glynn Clements Glynn -- This leads to the question of "console" servers for linux? Using Sun's Data Center (CO,US) which had over 300+ servers, I was able get console access by telneting into a specific port on a console server, assigned to a specific server, and watch the system reboot, halt the system or whatever needed to be done. The question is what would be involved with creating a Linux console server? >Bear in mind that we are discussing the behaviour of runlevel 1. In >this situation, there is no networking. Some consequences of this: As always thanks for your imput, David