He wasn't saying he made a change that ALLOWED that, he was just
wondering why, when starting in single-user mode, he wasn't asked for a
login or password.
"James J. Capone" wrote:
>
> I can understand that part. I am baffled at what he changed in the rc.local..
>
> The only other thing I could think of would be to change the /etc/inittab file
> to run login shells instead of login managers. There is nothing I can think of
> to run in rc.local that can bypass the login security.
>
> You can run an expect script to address one of the login managers and log in
> automatically, but that's not a simple change. You could start up an X session
> as a user, I suppose, but the original poster never mentioned what the change
> to the file was or how he did it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James J. Capone
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Alberto Abreu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Lack of security when booting in Linux single
>
> I think he meant that theres a security hole since he wasnt asked for a
> login&passwd....
