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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!paul
- From: paul@engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey)
- Subject: Re: Decstation Ultrix single-user mode security hole.
- Message-ID: <68g-9f-@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 16:27:44 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <ZAPHOD.92Aug22032228@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
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- Keywords: DecStation, Ultrix, Security Hole, Help
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- In article <ZAPHOD.92Aug22032228@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> zaphod@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Erik Lloyd Bunce) writes:
- >
- > On Decstations running Ultrix 4.1-4.2a is there any way to
- >make it so that users can't just hit ^C during the multiuser boot
- >process to break into single-user mode?
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- we changed init so it asks for a passwd before continuing as root.
- with no passwd, it will give the user a shell running as the
- user 'solo' which we created as a normal user account. from there
- one can su if they want.
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