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Hello all!

Since I am quite new into Linux, I perhaps have a stupid question...

I played with /etc/pam.d/system-auth last week and evidently disabled
all authentication methods... su didn't work and system login was
impossible.

I booted from the RedHat CD and found myself loged in as root without
any given password and could repair the system.auth file.
My question are:

- How is this possible?
- How works the described "CD-login" login? 
- And ... is anyone, armed with a RedHat CD, able to open any Linux
system?

Thanks in advance,
Clemens von Musil


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