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From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
To: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
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Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account
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* Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> [010504 16:10]:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to ml.freebsd.questions as well.
> 
> >>>>> "c" == ceri  <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> 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 ;-)

Yeah, but surely if you do that, *then* forget the root password,
you deserve all you get!

-- 
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