lilo passwd, boot single [was Is Red hat truly flawed?]

[Bevan Broun]

on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:27:58PM +0800, Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net> wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> > console access is hard to defend
> > against when faced with severe threats.
> 
> chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf
> ed /etc/lilo.conf <<EOF
> i
> password=g0bbl3dyg00k
> restricted
> ..
> w
> q
> EOF
> lilo -v

I looked at this soln but dont like the way this was being
handled (passwd in plain text). I think the correct soln is to add   
lS:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin to /etc/inittab

BB
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