On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Song Jianping wrote:
>   Today someone login my linux box by single user mode, and changes
>   root password. It's very dangerous. Now i have to do the same thing
>   to change it back. Can I restrict the access to single user mode?

I've never tried it, but I believe the trick is to place the following two
lines in lilo.conf within the applicable image section (please check the lilo
documentation to confirm):

    password=whatever
    restricted

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