From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 12 11:49:02 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA20125 for security-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:49:02 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA20113 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:48:54 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA00612; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 02:42:54 +0800 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 02:42:54 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Mr D Whitehead cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Problem? In-Reply-To: <9326.9504121533@sol.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: security-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, Mr D Whitehead wrote: > > One ancient and major problem seems to exist (unless I have missed > something or it has already been altered) and that is the reboot to > single user. No password, nothing, just a root shell to do with as > you wish. Mark the console as "insecure" in /etc/ttys. Remove floppy drives from the machines too. ;-) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org