Re: Asking for root passwd when booting single user

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From: Wolfgang Wetz
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 01:11

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galvin-peter@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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Subject: Re: Asking for root passwd when booting single user
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