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From: 1stFlight <1stflight@ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password?
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 16:58:06 -0400
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Actually this is a good point, anyone know of a way to secure init 1 ?


Darryl

David Jackson wrote:

> 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.
>
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