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Re: Getting root on Linux

> John> I fail to see how just adding an option for the user to set a
> John> LILO password at install time prevents users from getting in to
> John> the system to fix it...!
> 
>         You must have missed the early part of the discussion; one of
>  the proposals was to ship LILO with a password being required but not
>  set, so that users could not get in until they edited the
>  configuration. Given the large number of non-unix-guru types I see on
>  debian-user, I thought this was fraught with problems.

But they still _can_ get in!  First off, since the only thing the
password protects is the parameters to the boot image, it only affects
single-user and emergency boot modes.  Second, you can still use the
rescue floppy (which only the true admin should have the ability to use).

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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