How to password protect the single user mode in Linux
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
One of the very compromising situation arising with a Linux box with a slack physical security easy access to anyone to the linux box - is one were a malicious user boots into an un protected single user mode and changes your root password. This can be prevented by making your linux machine to ask for the root password even when the system is made to boot into single user mode. The below given tip lets you achieve this goal.