Thanks Dmitry, I think that's exactly what I was looking for. I do want other users of the system to be able to reboot. There are only a couple of other people using the system, but it is a multi-boot system with win98, FreeBSD, RedHat, and other (maybe) Linux systems available. I use V-Com's System Commander to offer boot choices. This has password protection for accessing each OS boot, but didn't protect me from the single user changing passwd. I still think this is not good default behavior. How many people have the "restricted" option in their lilo.conf ? I'd wager not the majority. I think passwd prog should ask for the old password before letting you set the new one like it does for normal users. Allan On Monday 11 March 2002 01:58, Dmitry Horoshih wrote: > And if you don't wont to enter password every time you boot computer, = > you can=20 > put 'restricted' option into lilo.conf. In that case password will be = > required=20 > only for boot with parameters. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Correa [mailto:tech@linux-tech.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:59 PM > To: security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com > Subject: Re: Single user mode changing root passwd ? > > If you read "man lilo.conf" you will see that you can put a passwd > to limit access globally (all images) or per image. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
