Bug 5287

Summary:	Access to root account
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	wwmccros
Component:	lilo	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
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Description wwmccros 1999-09-21 22:08:24 UTC

Are you aware that when the computer is sitting at the lilo:
prompt and you type 'linux 1', when it boots to single user,
you can use the passwd utility to change the root password
without knowing the root password!

I don't know if this is a bug or if this is supposed to be
this way.  It just seems like it is not real secure.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-09-21 22:10:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5265 ***