Alas the timeout option is meaningless, ideally setting timeout=0 would make lilo accept no user input and boot straight to the default OS. perhaps
* Kurt Seifried wrote on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:43 -0600: this
is a feature request.
AFAIK this is not 100% true, since they may situations when lilo do accept user input, and finally it's hard if the adminitrator needs to reboot with boot parameters like "single" or so.
Usually by the time you _need_ to boot into single user mode it's time to use a recovery disk/cd. I haven't really encountered any situation in the last few years where lilo being truly secure would have caused me grief, OTOH I sure wish I could make lilo secure (restricted and passwd are good, but more would be better). It's a basic C2 security requirement as well, for good reason.
oki,
Steffen
-Kurt