From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 10 13:37:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12299 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.eu.org (valerian.glou.eu.org [193.56.58.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12288 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.eu.org (8.7.3/8.7.1/951117) with UUCP id WAA03088 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 22:37:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.glou.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id TAA02302 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:00:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199609101700.TAA02302@tetard.glou.eu.org> Subject: single-user console in 2.1.5 To: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:00:51 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This probably shoudn't go in hackers but... I changed 'secure' to insecure in /etc/ttys for the console : console none unknown off insecure This is so that the root password is asked when going to single-user mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't work (refused every time). I'm using DES on a stock 2.1.5. Haven't tried w/ current yet. -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kårve or nøt to kårve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-