Bug 28446

Summary:	Linux single and passwd command
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	majid <mhedayati>
Component:	AfterStep	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	www.geocities.com/majid_hedayati
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Last Closed:	2001-02-20 15:07:47 UTC	Type:	---
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Description majid 2001-02-20 15:01:22 UTC

I installed Linux redhat v7.0 for checking its abilities.

It has a good and frienly environment but I find some bugs that has 

been listed below:

1- in your PASSWD command at first you must ask old password after that 

(if it was true)you want New password.

2- last week when boot> prompt appeared I entered LINUX SINGLE and 

perssed Enter in this case after # prompt I had root abilities and I 

changed root passwor (with PASSWD command).

So,your OS security is Low(I think) but I really like Linux.

I must tell you that I sent this mail Last week but it was rejected 

(because I entered (sup-manager)without "m" in "com").

 Regards ,Majid( http://www.geocities.com/majid_hedayati )






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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-20 15:41:15 UTC

It's intentional; if you have console access to lilo, you can boot up
as root anyways.

You might consider setting a password in lilo if you don't like this idea.