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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: securing the boot process (again?!?) 
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:53:21 +0300, Alex Popa wrote:

> I need to use the floppy disk, but if I disable it from the BIOS I get
> no access to it under FreeBSD.  So I set the boot sequence to "C only"
> but if I press space while the initial hyphen is displayed i get a
> prompt with no password being requested. (Note I have set a password
> in /boot/loader.conf, and set the console to "insecure" in /etc/ttys)

Would autoboot_delay="0" in /boot/loader.conf help?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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