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Re: security scenario
From: "Jonathan Bowman" <jbowman () colorado edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:55:04 -0700
Probably the simplest thing to do is to add a password to grub. Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add the line "password=yourpassword". Then don't forget to set appropriate permissions on that file and probably /etc/grub.conf so that random people can't just look up the password. Good Luck, -Jonathan ----- Original Message -----
consider this (I'm trying to make a network more secure) : A user enters grub upon bootup and hits "e" to edit the Linux boot procedure and then continues to boot into single user mode, and he then chagnes the root password to whatever he suits.... the user who did this is eventually tracked down and taken care of. Now, how would I prevent this from happening in future instances?
Current thread:
- Re: security scenario Jonathan Bowman (Jan 27)
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- Re: security scenario ATD (Jan 27)
- Re: security scenario Gene Cronk (Jan 28)
- Re: security scenario Richard Arends (Jan 28)
- Re: security scenario Chris Berry (Jan 29)
- RE: security scenario s7726 (Jan 30)
- RE: security scenario MacFerrin, Ken (Jan 29)
- Re: security scenario Chris Berry (Jan 30)
- RE: security scenario pasi.kivikangas (Jan 30)