From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Taylor Subject: Re: RH7.2: init 1 no password? Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 07:29:37 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020521072913.01b2c830@mustang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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.