Preventing users to boot VS2000 to single user
Shankar Unni
shankar at hpclscu.HP.COM
Sat Oct 29 05:49:51 AEST 1988
> running Ultrix. The Stations have their own system disk. I want to
> prevent the users of the stations to boot their system single user.
A simple trick is to prompt the user for a special password (from /etc/rc,
using /dev/console for input) if booting single user. If the user cannot supply
the password, reboot the system (and call security :-)).
if /etc/singlepass; then
# .. OK
else
echo "Sorry, buzz off!"
/etc/shutdown # or reboot, if you're brave..
fi
/etc/singlepass should read from /dev/console..
--
Shankar
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