From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mateusz Marzantowicz Subject: Re: (Summary) inittab problem Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:54:10 +0100 Message-ID: <42039AA2.7030506@server.pl> References: <42036FD9.1390.134B911E@localhost> <20050204151803.GA22821@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <42039645.5060600@server.pl> <20050204154144.GA22992@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050204154144.GA22992@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.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. ;-)