Bug 5265
| Summary: | becoming root without knowing root password | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | rquast |
| Component: | lilo | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | wwmccros |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-09-21 14:51:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
rquast
1999-09-21 09:26:56 UTC
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 ? |