Re: Hardware advice: seeking echoes of running Linux-PC clusters
Neil Turton writes:
> There is a loophole if there is a file-system problem on the root
> partition. /etc/init.d/boot will drop you into a root shell if the
> root partition has serious errors on it. Maybe there should be an
> option for securing the console which would stop root shells from
> popping up on the console without the root password being given.
What version of sysvinit do you use? 2.60-1 has a call of sulogin in
/etc/init.d/boot.
Michael
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