On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:36:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:09:22PM -0600, Henning, Brian wrote: > > i guess i am trying to set it up like i have my freebsd machine... the > > root password can only be accessed locally on the machine unless the > > user is in the wheel group then that user can 'su' as root. > > Change root's password in the /etc/shadow file to the single character '*'. > Do realize that the below point is correct, though: > > > Anyway, the only thing I can think of is that you would not be able to > > boot the system to single-user mode. But you can still boot with the > > "init=/bin/sh" kernel parameter, so that's not really a problem.
Could this not be solved with a password on lilo/grub to prevent people being able to do anything but boot the box? alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
