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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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