Re: Hiding init 1 safely
In article <[🔎] 20011114041350.B20357@debian.org>,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:29:00AM +0530, shyamk@eth.net wrote:
>> Dear members ,
>> Is there any safe way , whereby , I can hide init 1 from all
>> others who access my mac ?
>
>It sounds like you're trying to secure against physical access. This is
>fundamentally hard. I suggest a password on your BIOS (what's the Mac
>equivalent?) and/or bootloader.
Yes, if you have access to the kernel command line, it doesn't
matter if you prevent users from using Boot: linux 1
They might as well use "init=/bin/sh" which makes the kernel start
a shell instead of the init process. Without a password.
Mike.
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