Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com (Marco S. Hyman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Asking for root passwd when booting single user Message-ID: <8812151645.AA05520@hsfmsh.hayessf.com> Date: 22 Dec 88 09:14:58 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 08:45:40 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 72, message 1 of 9 X-Issue-Reference: v7n58, v7n37 A method better than a vinilla "login root" in /.profile is: trap "" 1 2 3 15 while true; do /bin/login root done This assumes the default Bourne Shell is used. --Marc ..... Marco S. Hyman UUCP: ...!sun!sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman Domain: sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com