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

[Julie]

From: Linda MacPhee-Cobb <prettyphysicslady at hotmail.com>
> 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.

Linux, from it's earliest inclusion of security tools, has included the
"sulogin" command.  That command includes the words "single user
login" in the headers and should be locatable by use of the "apropos"
command.  "init" mentions single user login, and "lilo" provides enough
information that you could have found out about passwords with a
very small number of trips to the man pages.

> Who are these back doors built in for?  Clearly not the users or there
would
> be documentation.

I resent that.

-- Julie.