From: Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 07:29:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020521072913.01b2c830@mustang> (raw)
At 12:35 PM 19/05/2002, you wrote:
>I would hope this issue has been raised before?
>But when I bring by Redhat7.2 box down to single user mode (shutdown or
>init 1) it puts me a
>root shell without asking for a password? Which
>seems likes a bit of a security problem to me?
Please don't tell me RH allows normal users to use shutdown or init
commands. If that is the case, fix it, simple permissions will do the job.
>Can I change this situation?
Of course you can, with *nix you control the system.
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-21 14:29 Scott Taylor [this message]
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2002-05-21 17:35 RH7.2: init 1 no password? David Jackson
2002-05-21 17:50 ` Glynn Clements
2002-05-21 16:47 David Jackson
2002-05-21 17:01 ` Glynn Clements
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2002-05-19 21:08 ` David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
2002-05-19 20:16 David Jackson
2002-05-19 20:58 ` 1stFlight
2002-05-20 8:24 ` Anatoli Souppes
2002-05-21 14:42 ` Scott Taylor
2002-05-21 14:33 ` Scott Taylor
2002-05-19 19:35 David Jackson
2002-05-19 19:54 ` Glynn Clements
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