Comments on: “Linux Tips and Tricks”, cracking passwords and security http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Alexander Sandler http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security/comment-page-1#comment-23148 Alexander Sandler Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:04:36 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1539#comment-23148 <a href='#comment-23117' rel="nofollow">@Priyank</a> Single user mode is not for a daily work. It is a recovery mode and should not be used for anything other than recovery. Take Apache for example. Apache usually runs as user www-data yet in single user mode it would have to run with the same user id. This is a security risk. On the other hand, AFAIK, you can configure Ubuntu 9.04 to login automatically - that is without asking for password.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('23148','Alexander Sandler'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('23148','Alexander Sandler','<a href=\'#comment-23117\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Priyank<\/a>\r\nSingle user mode is not for a daily work. It is a recovery mode and should not be used for anything other than recovery. \r\n\r\nTake Apache for example. Apache usually runs as user www-data yet in single user mode it would have to run with the same user id. This is a security risk.\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, AFAIK, you can configure Ubuntu 9.04 to login automatically - that is without asking for password.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Priyank
Single user mode is not for a daily work. It is a recovery mode and should not be used for anything other than recovery.

Take Apache for example. Apache usually runs as user www-data yet in single user mode it would have to run with the same user id. This is a security risk.

On the other hand, AFAIK, you can configure Ubuntu 9.04 to login automatically – that is without asking for password.

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]]> By: Priyank http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security/comment-page-1#comment-23117 Priyank Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:47:00 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1539#comment-23117 My question is that if you have enabled single user mode, then what's the use of password, just set auto boot with the username and password. One think I find hard in Linux, is to set the default username and not the password. I mean in windows at my home, I know I will only use this machine. So, it won't ask me for a username just only the password, in case my laptop is stolen, (lets suppose, I hope it never will). But in Linux, I can't do the same, if I set the login user, it won't ask me for a password.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('23117','Priyank'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('23117','Priyank','My question is that if you have enabled single user mode, then what\'s the use of password, just set auto boot with the username and password.\r\nOne think I find hard in Linux, is to set the default username and not the password. I mean in windows at my home, I know I will only use this machine. So, it won\'t ask me for a username just only the password, in case my laptop is stolen, (lets suppose, I hope it never will). But in Linux, I can\'t do the same, if I set the login user, it won\'t ask me for a password.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> My question is that if you have enabled single user mode, then what’s the use of password, just set auto boot with the username and password.
One think I find hard in Linux, is to set the default username and not the password. I mean in windows at my home, I know I will only use this machine. So, it won’t ask me for a username just only the password, in case my laptop is stolen, (lets suppose, I hope it never will). But in Linux, I can’t do the same, if I set the login user, it won’t ask me for a password.
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