On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
login as root with no password, reset root password.
This would offer a small window for attacker/scanners which could install a backdoor on networked systems. Don't do that except at home :)
I agree you must be careful, but with the right option to lilo you can boot into runlevel 1. Am I right in thinking that all network connections, and all ttys and gettys except the local console, will be down? I think this means you are ok. On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Kurt Seifried wrote:
for a cdrom drive for most headless servers =). Another alternative is to boot from floppy and use rescue via network.
There are still rescue systems that run entirely from floppy -- aren't there any suitable floppy images on the latest distributions? I have a floppy of tomsrtbt in case the SuSE boot floopy isn't enough. dproc