Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264062AbTEOPD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 11:03:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264067AbTEOPD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 11:03:58 -0400 Received: from kaboom.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.87.226]:21928 "EHLO mail.oobleck.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264062AbTEOPDx (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 11:03:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:16:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Chris Ricker X-X-Sender: kaboom@verdande.oobleck.net Reply-To: Chris Ricker To: Jesse Pollard Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" , Mike Touloumtzis , Ahmed Masud , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Yoav Weiss , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. In-Reply-To: <03051508174100.25285@tabby> Message-ID: References: <20030514074403.GA18152@bluemug.com> <20030514205847.GA18514@bluemug.com> <03051508174100.25285@tabby> 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: 1499 Lines: 35 On Thu, 15 May 2003, Jesse Pollard wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2003 16:32, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > 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. > > I fix those errors with by booting the Slackware CD with the live > filesystem... > > No dependancies on any of the regular disks - then I can fix anything within > reason (haven't tried md raids though). You don't have to do that. Richard is mis-informed. Any of the following still work on Red Hat Linux 9: init=/bin/bash # drops you straight to a bash shell init 1 # runs runlevel 1 SysV init scripts and rc.sysinit init single # runs rc.sysinit, but not runlevel 1 init emergency # runs a shell all without going to rescue media. later, chris - 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/