From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 14:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFABF37B6A6 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03092; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:44:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacking the root password References: <393E5F09.263BF8B3@usko.com> <4.3.1.2.20000607172036.00ae0310@mail.udel.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Jun 2000 17:44:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: John's message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 17:24:27 -0400" Message-ID: <44ya4hyxly.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John writes: > Typically wouldn't a new user to a system (unless otherwise set up by the > previous admin) need root access to issue "shutdown" or "reboot" > commands? So, short of hitting the reset button or pulling the plug (and > living with the consequential damages) is there some other way to drop to > single user mode that I'm missing? (a) not necessarily. It's always an option, and if you're careful, the damage is unlikely to be serious. (b) by default, control-alt-delete at the console will reboot the system. (c) The entire 'operator' group has access to shutdown(8); it doesn't actually require root. Obviously, this also requires root setup beforehand, but not for the reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message