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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:19:57 +0200
From:      Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>
To:        Per Engelbrecht <per@xterm.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: funny customers
Message-ID:  <20040922101956.GA13687@neveragain.de>
In-Reply-To: <51375.62.242.151.142.1095846313.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk>
References:  <546931695.20040922124354@apollophone.ru> <51375.62.242.151.142.1095846313.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk>

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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:45:13AM +0200, Per Engelbrecht wrote:
> But right now I need a way to bypass (I don't think it's possible) the
> single_user mode root login feature.

Just an idea (as it doesn't work ;) ...

A trick known from linux is to boot the kernel with /bin/sh instead of
/sbin/init. You'd do "set init_path=/bin/sh" for that in the loader.
This would bypass the usual startup and thus you won't be asked for
the password.

However, i just tried this and it doesn't work. The sh immediately
exists and consequently the kernel panics. Don't know what's the
problem there...

- D.



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