John Polyakov writes:
> Hmmm, if you have PHYSICAL access to the machine, you can simply reboot and type
> "linux init=/bin/sh" and after it simply cat /etc/shadow and run John The Ripper....
> Am i wrong?
You can password-protect LILO to prevent others from giving it their own
boot options. Similarly you can password-protect single-user mode so
either a deliberate shutdown-and-reboot to single-user mode, or an
attempt to induce the machine to go into single-user mode, will prevent
others from getting at the single-user root shell.
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