Re: tlug: xdm and 'nologin' on Slackware

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 14-Jul-98 Rex Walters wrote:
> > Just as an aside, deleting the line in the boot scripts that
> > removes /etc/nologin is probably a bad idea (kind of like
> > setting the default init state to 6 in in /etc/inittab).
> > 
> > On the other hand, if you're extremely security conscious,
> > doing either of the above should make your machine pretty much
> > impregnable.
> 
> That's why I had the 'rescue' floppy (the one that boots the
> second IDE HDD) in one hand while typing 'shutdown -r now' on the
> SCSI drive;-) If you're going to mess around - use precautions
> :-) :-)

Actually booting Linux into single user mode bypasses all of the
aforementioned stuff, since it drops you directly to a root shell.

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