Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
> Quick question: Even since I learned about the procedure you mentioned
> about, I've always wondered if there's a way to setup a Linux box so the
> root password can't be changed via the route you mentioned. Is there?
Hehehe. That really is the problem with the LILO prompt. Anyway, if there's
no way anyone can boot from any device other than the hard disk, well you
can replace LILO with GRUB. Well, with the version of GRUB that came with
Red Hat 7.3 (don't really know about other or older version, first time to
use it), you can password protect the boot prompt just in case you want to
do something not in the options you configured for GRUB. And don't worry
about people snooping for the password in your GRUB's config file, cuz it's
md5-hashed. hehehe.
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