On a system where this kind of security is a concern (what? a kiosk in a
'cracker' bar?), you can take the 1/2 second to remove the call from the
kernel yourself (or send me nice mail to send you a patch if you can't do
it yourself).
:)
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:
> At the end of boot, Linux kernel tries to fork init.
> If it fails, /bin/sh is forked.
> It means that If someone can alter init (with a tmp race for
> example), then reboot, it will have all access to the system.
>
> I think that /bin/sh should only be forked when asked at boot time
> with init= parameter (its use beeing protected by lilo password)
>
> christophe
>
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