On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Kunal Shah wrote:
> While some one do linux single from the boot prompt, he is allowed to
> enter to the system without asking password.
>
> I dont want to block single user mode but I want security in such a
> way that whenever user wants to enter to single user mode, there also
> he has to supply root's password.
apart from setting a lilo password, you might also want to add sulogin
to your inittab for single user logins:
after the initdefault line, add this:
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
This will ask for root password *after* boot up has completed.
Philip
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