Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no in a file called /etc/sysconfig/init, but that file doesn't exist on my Debian Potato, and I don't find

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 11:57, will trillich escreveu: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no This is the default in Debian (in lilo.conf)

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:14, Michel Loos wrote: Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 11:57, will trillich escreveu: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:14:25PM -0300, Michel Loos wrote: Em Ter, 2002-03-05 às 11:57, will trillich escreveu: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread David Z Maze
Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the default in Debian (in lilo.conf) but it is not necessary, even if the guy in front of the computer types the usual: linux single :he will not get root access to your computer without knowing the passwd. (At least on testing with a 2.4.x

Re: Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Danicich
This, as far as I know, is actually referring to the feature in Red Hat (and Red Hat variants, like Mandrake) where you can press 'i' while init is starting. This allows you to interactively choose which things you want to run and which you want skipped. To answer the original question:

Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no in a file called /etc/sysconfig/init, but that file doesn't exist on my Debian Potato, and I don't find one that has prompt= in it (well, there is one, but it's a binary called