From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 29 03:51:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA27834 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA27829 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA13453 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:51:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07004; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:31:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970629123156.YG34940@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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... References: <199706281513.BAA32119@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Jun 28, 1997 20:57:08 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)