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
If you use lilo to boot your box, just append a line restricted password = what_ever_your_password_should_be into the per image section. The bad thig is, that the password is not crypted. So you have to secure your /etc/lilo.conf: make a link to the floppy device and use a floppy whenever you install lilo. The good thing is, that booting without password is possible, but that password is required whenever a parameter to the image is typed in. I hope that helps... Greetings, Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jürgen Ellinger Siemensstraße 44 88250 Weingarten e-mail: ellinger@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de ellinger@student.uni-tuebingen.de ellinger@spohn.rv.bw.schule.de