From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 9 16:12:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A1C37B416 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAA0DQF35169 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:13:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:13:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Subject: Re: reboot,ctrl+alt+del,shutdown In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011109173353.00b00c48@rfnj.org> Message-ID: <20011109191222.U35109-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Allen Landsidel wrote: > At 02:07 PM 11/9/2001 +0100, Bart Matthaei wrote: > > >2. Disabling cntrl+alt+del wont stop any malicious user. It will > >only happening. > > (blahblah stop this thread blahblah) > > If the keyboard is the only means of physical access then it certainly can > stop a malicious user.. a malicious user who say... wants to reboot into > single user mode, which if you were not aware, does not require a password. It does if you set the console to "insecure" in /etc/ttys. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message