Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:44:25 +0300 From: Alex Popa <razor@ldc.ro> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: securing the boot process (again?!?) Message-ID: <20000703124425.A823@ldc.ro> In-Reply-To: <20000703124141.A759@ldc.ro>; from razor on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:41:41PM %2B0300 References: <20000703115320.A341@ldc.ro> <4777.962615099@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000703124141.A759@ldc.ro>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:41:41PM +0300, Alex Popa wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:04:59AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > Would autoboot_delay="0" in /boot/loader.conf help? > > I do not think so, because if you press space in the stage where there > is only one hyphen as a prompt, /boot/loader does not have a chance of > being loaded (I get something like "default: ad(0,a)/boot/loader"), so > this loader boots /boot/loader, which in turn fires up the kernel. > And anyway, there would be a password I guess, since I have set one in > /boot/loader.conf > > I got the idea I could do this after remembering that some development > version of Debian 2.2 (in January I think) installed by default a MBR > that would allow you to boot off a floppy, and I think this is what > the FreeBSD MBR does too. (please correct me if it is not the MBR, > remember I installed "dangerously dedicated"). > > > Ciao, > > Sheldon. > Have Fun! > Alex > > ------------+------------------------------------------ > Alex Popa, |There never was a good war or a bad peace > razor@ldc.ro| -- B. Franklin > ------------+------------------------------------------ > "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. > It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." > ------------+------------------------------------------ Alex Popa, |There never was a good war or a bad peace razor@ldc.ro| -- B. Franklin ------------+------------------------------------------ "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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