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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:41:33 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... 
Message-ID:  <199901070241.SAA02030@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:09:06 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901062105340.27158-100000@janus.syracuse.net> 

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> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > What we're trying to achieve is an environment where the worst thing
> > > someone could do is cause the machine to reboot.
> > 
> > Then lock the machine in a room.  You're not going to get anywhere
> > close to that by changing the boot blocks and flagging it as an issue
> > in this case is simply waving a red herring.
> 
> It might be nice to have a root-password-required feature for
> booting single user,

Mark the console as insecure, of course.

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