Shadow password file

[Jeffrey Pyne]

On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:42 AM, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> BTW, if this machine wasn't safe inside my house I'd say the 
> "reboot to single user mode" sounds like a real security
> risk.  I'm sure there must be ways to lock that down, I'd be
> interested to see how they do it.

You can password-protect GRUB.  Once you do this, you would need to enter
the GRUB password if you want to modify the boot parameters.  Take a look at
this for more info:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/security-guide/s1-wsta
tion-boot-sec.html.

~Jeff