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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) 
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:44:21 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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>>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

    >> You incorporate my patches to inetd that teach it to listen on
    >> named sockets, and then run the daemon from there in wait mode.
    >> If inetd dies you're pretty much hosed, anyway.

    Garrett> Think ``single-user mode''.

In single user mode you're root by definition. If init wants roots
password before going single user it can certainly go directly to the
password file. (It's really no different than if you're serving up
passwords via NIS.)

--lyndon


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