>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:

    Steven> I won't have a chance to try this, but I suspect that if you made this
    Steven> /sbin/init it would work:

    Steven> 	#!/bin/ksh

    Steven> 	exec /bin/ksh -i $* >/dev/console 2>&1 </dev/console

Except that that presupposes write  access to the root filesystem -- a
good reason to have  an mfs /tmp, but even that may  not matter if you
have write  access anywhere  at all and  can tell the  bootloader what
partition/kernel/init to use...

-w
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