From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 6 16:03:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480411065679 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:03:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from mail.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11628FC08 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.1-16-172-dyn.locolomo.org (unknown [172.16.1.127]) by mail.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C17F1C1A67 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:03:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B6D92B6.6010003@locolomo.org> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:03:02 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: How to set loader password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:03:05 -0000 Hi: I was looking in /boot/loader.rc and found these lines: \ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined check-password OK, great, so: How do I set this password? What does it protect? Didn't find documentation in loader(8) and no man-page for loader.rc. Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org