From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 19:25:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f226.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A585B37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:25:37 -0800 Received: from 209.53.54.44 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 01 Nov 2000 03:25:37 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.53.54.44] From: "Some Person" To: abc@bsdi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Securing boot -s and disabling CNTRL-ALT-DEL... Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 03:25:37 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2000 03:25:37.0462 (UTC) FILETIME=[671E4D60:01C043B3] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doh! Thanks so much, sorry for such a dumb question. This is so great! > >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 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message