Re: The kernel should try /sbin/sulogin first.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 17:35:24 +0000 (GMT)


> until one runs or it panics. The idea of putting /sbin/sulogin in there
> before /bin/sh is that you proberbly don't want to give anyone
> passing shell access at that level (ie basically root access), just
> because something happened to init. Btw sulogin sais this:

/sbin/sulogin is part of only some distributions. It also doesn't appear
to be guaranteed or designed to work as the init process