From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 02:51:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA18291 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 02:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA18284 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 02:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA05748 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:50:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA20317 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:50:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id MAA10659 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603311030.MAA10659@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603302103.OAA09744@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 30, 96 02:03:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Now, if someone is concerned about naive users spamming themselves then > > perhaps we need to think about an automated recovery disk but that's not > > what fixit is all about. > > What, like: > > 1) I forgot my root password, set it it 'dork' > 2) It wants me to fsck my '/' parition > 3) I tried (unsuccessfully) to start X from /etc/ttys > 4) ... All of this can be handled fine by booting with `-s'. Of course, 1) couldn't be helped iff the user declared his console location to be `insecure'. But this ain't the default, and people who care more for security than recoverability have to care for a reasonable recovery strategy anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)