Re: security scenario

["Jonathan Bowman" <jbowman () colorado edu>]

Probably the simplest thing to do is to add a password to grub.  Edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf and add the line "password=yourpassword".  Then don't
forget to set appropriate permissions on that file and probably
/etc/grub.conf so that random people can't just look up the password.

Good Luck,
-Jonathan

----- Original Message -----




> consider this (I'm trying to make a network more secure) :
> A user enters grub upon bootup and hits "e" to edit the Linux boot
> procedure and then continues to boot into single user mode, and he then
> chagnes the root password to whatever he suits.... the user who did this
> is eventually tracked down and taken care of.
>
> Now, how would I prevent this from happening in future instances?