ctrl-c during boot != good

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Sep 29 04:24:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:53:34 -0700,
  Steve G <linux_4ever at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with this and want to see us go one step farther. We also need a boot
> option to disallow interactive boot. For servers it can be argued that they have
> to be in a protected environment with only admin access provided. But when you
> consider desktop installations and security standards like SOX, GLBA, PCI, or
> HIPPA, they demand protection of the audit trail, detection of attempts to
> subvert it, and identification of users that do stop or start it. Right now its a
> matter of typing "I" and saying no to starting the audit daemon. That's too easy.

Change the prompt setting in /etc/sysconfig/init to something like the
following:
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=no




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