From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 11:22:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14010 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13956 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01056; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Hovey cc: Carl Marrelli , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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