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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



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