Friday, May 20, 2016

How to disable interactive startup in Linux ?

Fedora, CentOS and RHEL allow the console user to perform an interactive system start-up by pressing [I] key. Using interactive boot, attacker can disable the security services and may get access to system then better to disable this service.

01. Login as root

02. Edit this system file

[root@srinivaslinux~]# nano /etc/sysconfig/init

03. Go to end of the file 
You will see PROMPT=yes it’s change to PROMPT=no

04. Save this file

Ctrl + O

05. Exit the file 

Ctrl + X

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