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Re: a simple Q
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Guy Cohen wrote:
I think he means that he wants it to work like Solaris and IRIX and other
SysVR4 OS's around there, that give you:
Enter root password (or press Ctrl+D for ....):
This is given by sulogin, and AFAIK, latest RedHat versions are supposed
to do that.
--Ariel
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> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Shachar Tal wrote:
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> .|Hi,
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> .|How do I password-protect a single-user boot? Usually, you get a root
> .|prompt, and I want to password-protect it.
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> If you mean you want to stop Lilo boots to single user mode
> by invoking 'linux/vmlinuz single' at the prompt, add a
> password=<password> to lilo.conf (read the man page for details). You
> can safely chmod 600 lilo.conf since the password is not crypted.
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