From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 11:15:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26567 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (mike.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA14035; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:15:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35ACF326.29AC4C89@graphnet.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:21:26 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Ruxton CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot -s References: <35ACE569.284797A9@satin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Ruxton wrote: > > Hello - I was wondering if there is an easy way to disable the -s > (single user mode) option at boot time for security reasons, to prevent > someone from changing the root password as specified in section 8.20 ( > Eek! I forgot the root password) of the FAQ? Hi. I asked that question once (not too long ago) -- it didn't make sense to me that it should be that easy to change the root passwd. However, you don't want to disable that option. You probably (hopefully) will never forget the root password, but (and this is what happenned to me) it _is_ possible that the machine will give you 'login incorrect' even if you're a 100% positive it's not. And it makes a lot more sense to be able to just change the password than to be forced to reinstall. As far as security -- single mode can only be done from the machine itself, so if it's an issue just keep it in a secure place, don't let people have physical access. HTH, Roman -- _________________________________________ | The box said: | | | _ | Requirement: Win95, NT 4.0 or better. | _ / )| |( \ / / | So I installed FreeBSD. | \ \ _( (_ | | _) )_ (((\ \>|_/-) (-\_|