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Message-ID: <001001c3fe31$878ca560$0201a8c0@fosi> From: steve.wray at paradise.net.nz (Steve Wray) Subject: Re: Knocking Microsoft > [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of > martin f krafft > > Some of them (debian comes to mind) even set up services > > like mysql to run in *single*user*mode*; > > not true. I've seen it. I trust the evidence of my senses. It was an older debian install though. > > debian even brings up networking in single user! > > ... which is helpful. alas, there are no daemons listening, so what > gives? The purpose of single user is to be able to bring a machine up in a bare state; 'single user' mode. Its just personal, but networking is a sufficiently complex subsystem that it should not be enabled in single user mode. > > I recently had the joy of discovering that when you install the > > debian watchdog package, it sets it up to run in single user, so > > if its misconfigured, you have to boot with init=/bin/sh to fix > > the mess (otherwise you bring it up in single user and it just > > reboots itself over and over). > > wrong: no its something I have seen happen and it wasn't pretty. > > This isn't just a bug, its a design flaw! > > I'd appreciate if you'd either start using your brain or shut up > while spouting fud! Thats pretty rude of you, and pointless too. Did it make you feel better though?
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