From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anatoli Souppes Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password? Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 09:24:35 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205200924.53733.anatoli@financity.co.uk> References: <200205191416.AA13369654@wcox.com> <3CE811DE.FEC64260@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3CE811DE.FEC64260@ameritech.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 May 2002 21:58 pm, 1stFlight wrote: > 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. > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html just edit inittab and under the line which reads id:3:initdefault: insert this ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin this will ask you to login - -- - --This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anatoli Souppes anatoli.souppes@financity.co.uk Financity Ltd., Tel: 01483 29 5015 Guildford UK Fax: 01483 29 5016 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE86LLJ+6oHupCsKzYRAtXMAJ93uhiz4murPBhT+D9FStMz+xXJAQCeKuNH eNuMi2ZJqznHcfzXoBuMv1w= =UhNc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----