Asking for root passwd when booting single user
Wolfgang Wetz
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Fri Dec 16 11:11:11 AEST 1988
galvin-peter at cs.yale.edu (Peter Baer Galvin) writes:
>On "lesser" versions, you can put the command
>
> login root
>
>as the first line of the file /.profile but only if root uses the csh
>shell by default....
WARNING:
Do not do this: if you let '/bin/login root' just timeout you are in
single user mode (at least that is the case under SunOS 3.4 and 3.5).
Wolfgang Wetz, Systems Administrator, Scientific Computing Centre
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