Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262861AbTENVYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262869AbTENVYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:24:54 -0400 Received: from corky.net ([212.150.53.130]:29575 "EHLO marcellos.corky.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262861AbTENVYx (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:24:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 00:37:35 +0300 (IDT) From: Yoav Weiss X-X-Sender: yoavw@marcellos.corky.net To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Mike Touloumtzis , Ahmed Masud , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 21 > Not so, with the latest Red Hat distribution (9). You can no longer > set init=/bin/bash at the boot prompt.... well you can set it, but > then you get an error about killing init. This caused a neighbor > a lot of trouble when she accidentally put a blank line in the > top of /etc/passwd. Nobody could log-in. I promised to show her > how to "break in", but I wasn't able to. I had to take her hard-disk > to my house, mount it, and fix the password file. All these "attempts" > at so-called security do is make customers pissed. > 1. Insert Live-System CD (Knoppix for example) 2. Boot from it. 3. Mount rootfs. 4. Fix things. 5. Remove CD and reboot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/