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Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote on 05/04/04 07:29 AM:

>  Why in single-user mode I have direct acces to the root account?
>  Why the system does not ask for a password to enter in single-user
> mode? 
>   


single user mode can be used to recover your root password among other 
things.

if you want to be prompted for a password, look for this line in /etc/ttys:
console    none    unknown    off    secure

and change secure to insecure.



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