From: Mateusz Marzantowicz <mateuszm@server.pl>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (Summary) inittab problem
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:54:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42039AA2.7030506@server.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050204154144.GA22992@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>
>>>You should see a prompt like this
>>>
>>>#
>>
>>But not on Slackware, It's more secure Linux distro than others and even
>>on single user mode you are asked for user name and password.
>>
>
>
> Thanks, I didn't know that. (Nor did I know DP was using slackware.)
> That approach has mixed blessings of course (what if you want to get into
> single user mode because you forgot the root password and need to reset it?
> -- of course there are other ways to do that)
>
I couldn't imagine situation when sysadmin simply loses his password.
But it could happen and than the only way to get into Slackware box is
to hack it. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-04 12:51 (Summary) inittab problem Dermot Paikkos
2005-02-04 15:18 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-02-04 15:35 ` Mateusz Marzantowicz
[not found] ` <20050204154144.GA22992@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
2005-02-04 15:54 ` Mateusz Marzantowicz [this message]
2005-02-07 18:11 ` Glynn Clements
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