From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 18:47:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15760 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15750 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02030; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:41:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901070241.SAA02030@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Feldman cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Garrett Wollman , Tom Bartol , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:09:06 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:41:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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