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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:31:56 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: com console, and h/w flow control...
Message-ID:  <19970629123156.YG34940@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970628205708.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on Jun 28, 1997 20:57:08 -0700
References:  <199706281513.BAA32119@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <XFMail.970628205708.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>

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As Simon Shapiro wrote:

> > There's nothing to prevent a suitably timed call from interrupting the
> > boot.  I think there's something to prevent single user shells.
> 
> Anyone knows what that is?

Mark the console as `insecure' in /etc/ttys, this will require the
root password for the single-user shell.

If i were you, i'd use a modem configured to callback.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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