[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #447 - 11 msgs

[Gina Lanik]

hm, what I forgot - no I don't mean removing the entry for runlevel 1.

relevant part of my inittab:

# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

HTH & HAND,

Gina

On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:59:26 +0200, Gina Lanik writes:
>
>other people on this list have said what I felt like saying, so there's 
>only one thing left... if you're -absolutely- sure that you don't want 
>this maintenance feature up you can go and change /etc/inittab 
>accordingly (as it is done by default on a Debian system).
>
>cheers,
>
>Gina
>
>On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:24:40 EDT, "Linda MacPhee-Cobb" writes:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have been painstakingly going through the lilo documentation.  I have not 
>>found in the documentation, on my computer or at sunsite, a single reference 
>>to this back door into my computer.  It is not even documented in the source 
>>code.
>>
>>The fact we have a back door that allows root access that is undocumented is 
>>something I would expect from M$ not linux.
>>
>>Why isn't this documented in an easy to find location?  That is very 
>>troubling.  Especially since linux users scream bloody murder when back 
>>doors are found in Windows.
>>
>>If I wanted a computer OS that didn't need a password I would use Windows 
>>95.  One of the reasons for choosing linux was the security.  Right now 
>>Win2000 looks like a better option.  The only way to boot this machine is 
>>from the hard drive.  I am not so stupid as to forget root password, nor am 
>>I pleased that the people writing this system appear to have set it up for 
>>fools.
>>
>>If there is one undocumented back door there are many.
>>
>>Who are these back doors built in for?  Clearly not the users or there would 
>>be documentation.
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