From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 16:54:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A23C37B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA10xMX19373; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:59:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from abc) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:59:22 -0500 From: Alan Clegg To: Some Person Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Message-ID: <20001031195922.J12935@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Some Person , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from ntvsunix@hotmail.com on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:50:55AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unless the network is lying to me again, Some Person said: > Is there a way to secure the console of a FreeBSD box from someone > rebooting, weather they pull the plug or CNTRL-ALT-DEL (if not disabled) and > issuing a boot -s without having complete root access in single user mode > with not password prompt? sure... in /etc/ttys, read the part about "console" and the "secure" keyword. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message