interactive boot and security

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:38 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Being so lucky to run a public system, i wonder: is there any way to
> completely disable "interactive startup", at least without prompting for
> root first (and 3 failed logins => continued boot)?

>From /etc/sysconfig/init:

[...]
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=yes
[...]

--> Set this to "no"

Nils
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