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    28 December 2013

    Password protecting single user mode

    by Alpha01

    I was surprise to find out how easy it was to password protect runlevel 1 aka single user mode in RHEL/CentOS.

    Simply update the SINGLE variable in the file /etc/sysconfig/init

    SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin

    Single User mode password protected

    If the root password cannot be retrieved/reset, then at this point the only option will be to boot into a rescue environment, assuming encryption hasn’t been enabled.

    Tags: [ centos security ]