Re: Password to single user boot.
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
: No problem. Have fun! :)
:
: By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a
: password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad
: thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since
: I wanted to do the same thing but never actually tried to figure out how
: to do it till now.
As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master
boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or
another partition.
I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they
only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry about.
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