need opinions........

[janet loves bill]

Hi Everybody, I have read thru the Armouring system-NHF and Security How-to but this detail is not mentioned... I am only user on this Slack machine. So I went into /etc/inittab file and change the default runlevel to single user mode, would this be wise for security against inside or outside attack? thx for your time.

[X_console]

Single user mode doesn't run any services so it'd be a kind of useless machine. Anyone who has physical access can bypass the security of your machine. Single user mode doesn't have any networking enabled so no one can access your machine remotely, but that's because the network interface is switched off. You can't access the Internet, and no one can reach you. :)

[janet loves bill]

I found out that with 1 user mode that I can't make myself a regular user either, root is only one, that is not good, running myself as root all the time is asking for trouble from what I have read......gonna switch it back......