From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 8: 9:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B25A37B43F for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 08:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 14uyDU-0003ck-00; Wed, 02 May 2001 16:07:00 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:07:00 +0100 From: Ceri To: Corey Brune Cc: John Congdon , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account Message-ID: <20010502160700.A13895@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <71E79DA61328D311B4D10020AFF78E4218DBEE@bdc.orlando.tradeweb.net> <200105021500.f42F0cg28602@sdf.lonestar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105021500.f42F0cg28602@sdf.lonestar.org>; from brune@sdf.lonestar.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:00:37PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:00:37PM +0000, Corey Brune said: > What would you do if you need single user mode? Single user mode always uses /bin/sh , n'est pas ? > John Congdon wrote: > > > > I am considering changing root's shell to /bin/false or the like. > > And doing everything via sudo. Ceri -- Your local RFC Nazi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message