From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 00:51:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373DD16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:51:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0493743D2F for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:51:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j140nlGf012289 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:49:47 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j140me5b012283; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:48:40 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:48:40 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: epilogue Message-ID: <20050204004840.GY8619@alzatex.com> References: <20050203134948.06fee67a@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050203134948.06fee67a@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: Chris Hodgins cc: Gert Cuykens cc: Ted Mittelstaedt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xhost +localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:51:13 -0000 On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:49:48PM -0500, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt > > wrote: > > > > While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb > > > enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible then user > > > Ted can come along and power cycle it into single user mode and wipe > > > his disks whether he has the root password or not. > > While i quite agree with Ted's encouraging Gert to run X as joe user, > rather than root (for a variety of security related reasons) it is a > trivial matter implement a password requirement for boot -s. This way, > even if a user can boot -s, they *must* have the root passwd. Well, with the bit about removing the cmos battery, I think he was also getting at changing the bios so that other boot media like floppies or cds can be used, then what good is a root password? > my 2 cents CAD for the day. > > > cheers, > epi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C