Hi Civileme,
You are right of course and I wasn't considering to start doing this.
But I was curious just about how far Linux would be configurable. Pretty
far apparently.
Thanks for the insight.
Greetings,
Jo
Civileme wrote:
>
> YEs, it would be possible to set that to any of those numbers. IMHO,
> 2 and 1 are self-defeating, and nearly as bad as 0 or 6. Logins and
> passwords and privileged and non-privileged users are important. Has
> no friend ever harmed your computer by accident? Wouldn't a computer
> with unknown passwords make a nice boat anchor for a burgular? More
> to the point, do you wonder why there is so little anti-virus software
> for Linux, and why most of it running under Linux is set to check for
> viruses that might affect other types of systems in the same network?
>
> All part of some careful and thoughtful planning going back to or
> before Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The security features are
> there for you, and do have a minor cost, in terms of logins and
> privileges.
>
> Today, I had difficulty downloading a driver file from a site. It
> insisted I register first, which I did repeatedly, but it kept
> looping. I noticed the pages were labeled with .asp extensions, so I
> decided to try a new toy I borrowed from the good folks at eEye
> Digital Security Team. Result: I downloaded the driver, cleaned up
> the logs and got out without leaving behind any destruction or in fact
> any evidence I was there.
>
> www.eeye.org and www.insecure.org have the relevant links. Linux
> running Apache doesn't have these sorts of problems, unless there are
> some of the older unprotected front-page extensions running on
> Apache. Even if exploits are found, they are patched within a matter
> of hours in most cases.
>
> I use Linux for two reasons. One is that, except in a MAJOR release,
> software does what it claims, and will do what it claims pretty soon
> even after a major revision, and the other is that I don't care to
> have others who have access to my computer messing up my
> configuration. An init default runlevel of 2 or 1 would defeat that.
>
> Michael Moore
>
>
> Jo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Wouldn't it be possible to change that 3 to a 2 or a 1? Then, he
>> wouldn't need
>> to give a password... Or am I totally missing something?
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> Ken Wilson wrote:
>>
>> > Are you talking about the logon screen with that cute ASCII
>> graphic of Tux?
>> > If so, no, this would be the minimum screen. One of the security
>> features
>> > of Linux is you 'must' log on and be authenticated.
>> >
>> > If you are talking about coming up with an X logon screen just
>> edit the
>> > 'inittab' file line that reads "id:5:initdefault" to read 3
>> instead of 5.
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bert
>> Bullough
>> > > Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 9:33 AM
>> > > To: Mandrake
>> > > Subject: [newbie] command prompt
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Hello.
>> > >
>> > > By default when I start Mandrake 6.0 it goes straight to the
>> cute little
>> > > logon manager. Is there a way to change this so that it will go
>> straight
>> > > to a command prompt?
>> > >
>> > >
>
> --
> Civileme Say:
>
> "Man who read the fine material available make wiser decisions, much wiser
> after some tinkering and experience."
>
>
