Re: [LI] Information on security desired...

[Sundar Narayanan <sundar0974@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is a small escape route to this.
If you have multiple operating systems on your
machine ... Say for instance Win95 & Linux
Say, you also have LILO..

At the LILO prompt, type "Linux single".
The system goes into single user mode without
a password. There is no need to use a floppy
in this case

Hence it would be advisable if u keep a small
dos partition with DOS on it aside, so that
you can force LILO to come into play, which is
useful in such situations.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards,
Sundar.


--- "Kishore C. Pattnaik" <kcp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, Will you not be able to add
> the root account again
> > using single user mode?
> 
> I don't think system 'll allow U even to login in
> Single user mode if "ROOT"
> user doesn't exist. If U "EVER" by chance happen to
> lose "ROOT" from
> /etc/passwd, solution is boot system from recovery
> floppy which you have
> created during linux installation, mount the actual
> root partition ( /dev/hda1
> or something on ur system ) on /mnt. Edit
> "/mnt/etc/passwd" to add root user
> information and restart the system. The same thing
> works if U accidentally
> remove /etc/passwd and don't have any backup for it.
> 
> This is one way out there may be others as well. 
> Please correct me if above
> info is incorrect.
> 
> Cheers ... !!!
> 
> Kishore,
> Systems Engg. Group,
> TCS , Mumbai - 66.
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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