At 02:34 23-06-99 -0300, you wrote: >Please, I don't understand: >Why a LILO or BIOS password? >Why one can't edit the single mode script for >telling for a password, as in Slackware? >(I use slack 3.5) If you don�t protect lilo, you can start any program without running any startup-scripts. Try starting linux with the following as a parameter to lilo: init/bin/sh Then you start a shell, with nothing else running. Not even init. So if you want to protect your linux-box, you must prevent others from accessing your bios so they can�t use a bootdisk, and protect lilo to prevent bypassing the startupscripts.
