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I'm not sure if this is entirely a security question
Yes it is. Amongst other things it shows one should think about physical security, running sulogin and not having the BIOS boot from fd/cdr.
I tried some of the suggestions but none of them seem to work
Please tell what doesn't work instead of *saying* it doesnt work.
it's an example, should work the same for your distro...
you using redhat right? put in redhat cd1
then when u see boot, type "linux rescue"
then follow instructions
when u see the prompt
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# passwd root
When I said it doesn't work is that the kernel always goes inot panic mode and fails to boot.
Please describe what bootloader you're using and what bootloader arguments you added? If there's anything else different from booting a default Linux install, please tell.
I am using Red Hat default bootloader. Hmm, I don't have immediate access to my linux box at the moment but I remember adding single and 1
linuxzouk,
I suppose I should disable running the CD-ROM from BIOS. Is there any other way I could prevent the user from gaining full access by simply using the Red hat CD.
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