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 07:33:50 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020521072958.00a88fd8@mustang> References: <200205191416.AA13369654@wcox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200205191416.AA13369654@wcox.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org At 01:16 PM 19/05/2002, 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? You top post doesn't make any sense. What Glynn says is true, you don't need access to init 1 or shutdown or even root permissions to access any machine if you have access to the consol. If your security and janitors have access to it, you better make sure you can trust them. I don't know why anyone paying security $10.00 would trust them with the key to the servers.