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Re: Getting root on Linux

Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> writes:

> From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> > Just using a LILO password has some other problems.  We may sometimes
> > want to let people set options for device drivers or something, but
> > not let them get root on the machine.
> 
> Take LILO and start hacking. It's fine to have it put up a menu and
> provide a restricted set of things the user can change. You can get that
> in the second-stage loader.

Well Bruce, I am very good with C but that does not mean that I have
any clue about LILO's internals :-)  I know when it gets loaded in the
boot process but I have no idea what kind of dark magic it has to do
to load the kernel :-)

If the code to chos was available, it might be easier to add a menu to
that program.

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