Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: Carl Marrelli <carl@dlt.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980213112027.1014G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980212110426.1430L-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Steve Hovey wrote: > > That can be overridden if you set the console as `insecure'; you'll be > > prompted for a password when you start single user mode. > > I didnt know that - what if you boot with a freebsd diskette? That gets around it ;-( It's harder to make changes to the passwd file unless you hack & rebuild it manually, but you can mount the filesystems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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