Comments on: “Linux Tips and Tricks”, cracking passwords and security http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security Tue, 16 May 2023 15:06:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.23 By: Alexander Sandler http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security/comment-page-1#comment-23148 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:04:36 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1539#comment-23148 @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.

]]> By: Priyank http://www.alexonlinux.com/linux-tips-and-tricks-cracking-passwords-and-security/comment-page-1#comment-23117 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.

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