From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 8: 8:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E066B37B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id DC6742E460; Fri, 4 May 2001 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account References: <71E79DA61328D311B4D10020AFF78E4218DBEE@bdc.orlando.tradeweb.net> <200105021500.f42F0cg28602@sdf.lonestar.org> <20010502160700.A13895@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> From: Vivek Khera Date: 04 May 2001 11:08:52 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) In-Reply-To: <20010502160700.A13895@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: ml.freebsd.questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to ml.freebsd.questions as well. >>>>> "c" == ceri writes: c> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:00:37PM +0000, Corey Brune said: >> What would you do if you need single user mode? c> Single user mode always uses /bin/sh , n'est pas ? You can configure it to require the root password, for security ;-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message