From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 19:41:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AAE37B6C6 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000415024135.BQMD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@cx443070a>; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:41:35 -0700 Message-ID: <001601bfa685$93839ac0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "William Freeman" , "Ryugen C. Fisher" Cc: References: <4.3.1.2.20000414145301.00a85b30@mail.palaver.org> <38F77B67.E2FCA215@picusnet.com> Subject: Re: single user mode -- from afar Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:51:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG single user mode has no network access, plus you have to hand-mount file systems from the console. if you could log in accross the network, than telnetd would have to be running which defeats the purpose of 'single user mode' as daemons are considered users. You know, I was thinking about this too. Perhaps if you had two servers and you linked their serial ports. Then you could use one to access a console on the other right ? Would that work ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message