If you enter linux -s at lilo's boot: prompt you gain single-user root access without needing root's (or anyone's) password. From here you can do almost anything you want. This prob. has already been reported, but I couldn't find it in bugzilla. TIA, Colin S. Miller
that's a usefull thing to use if you forget your password, if you want to disable it all you have to do is read the man-pages on lilo.conf there is an option called 'restricted' which forces lilo to verify the specified password if there is ANY commandline used at the LILO prompt.
that's a feature of lilo. If you have physical access to the machine, you can do other things anyways... (linux init=/bin/bash, and the like). You can put a password on lilo if you need to.