From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 9 10:49:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98AB14C99 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p18-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.147]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA11005; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 03:48:59 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3827FF3F.8C0433BC@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 20:02:23 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loader security problem References: <19991105222636.B27448@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199911060019.QAA00813@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991107000520.A23479@scorpion.crimea.ua> <3825384E.C6214B61@newsguy.com> <19991109000817.A23687@scorpion.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > Looks fine! What about including something like that to distribution and > have enabled by default ? It's much easy for newbie users to get it enabled > by default and not hacked machine (also by default). Passwords? On the loader? By default? No! :-) Passwords on the loader is of limited use, and a potential headache. An example in /usr/share/examples/bootforth I can do. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message