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March 21, 2001 at 05:51 PM
chew

Linux Security Hole

by chew . Updated 25 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

My friend shows this to me:

After bootup, at the lilo prompt, he just key in “linux single”, then he can login and run “passwd root” to change the root password!

How can this happen? Anyway to secure this?

Thx.

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