Hi,
I edited the lilo.conf file and set the password. But what happened was
that it just asked me the password and did not accept the password that I
had given. After a few frustrating hours, I finally mounted the hard disk
on another comp and deleted the line. Could you please tell me as to why
this password did not work ?
Thanx in advance for your time.
Gautham
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Anand Singh Bisen wrote:
> > Anand Singh Bisen wrote:
> > >
> > > give password to your lilo.conf so nobody can enter linux also withought
> the
> > > password
> >
> > can you shed some light on that how it is done ?
> >
> > s.goswami
>
> if you want to give a default password to all the images just add
>
> PASSWORD=<anypassword you want>
>
> on the top
>
>
> or if you want specific passes for different images type
>
> Password=<password>
>
> on every image para
>
> and after that save and exit and type "lilo" on the command prompt to
> activate the changes
>
> Note : dont forget to chmod on lilo.conf so that no body can see the file
> except root because the password stored is in plain text and any body logged
> in as even guest can know the password... so protect that lilo.conf file by
> disabling read access also
>
>
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