Oh that has been around for some time. How about editing lilo.conf to say password=password restricted this way you can not pass options to lilo unless you know the password. Also you can as well set the timeout to zero. Don't forget the restricted entry otherwise you machien won't boot without a password. On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Frank Steiner wrote:
Hi,
just stepped on this option to type "linux init=/bin/sh" at the boot prompt, which gives me a root shell. For me, that's really a security problem: We have some computers here which we cannot protect with boot-passwords because they have to come up automatically after a power drop. Can I somehow disable this possibility of passing an alternative init-parameter for my SuSE 6.4?
Best regards, Frank
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