and you can do the same thing with linux init=/bin/bash.
Therefore, we won't change the 'linux single' behavior.

*** Bug 5287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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.

I don't understand why this is marked as resolved.  This is a major security
problem.  On the Server this may not be an issue, but in a desktop environment
if a user knows how to type :   linux init=/bin/bash
or some other command like that, this will allow them root or God access.
 Is there some way to prompt a user for root password every time they type
something in, but if they use the menu option "tab" then no password is required
?