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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Andrew <andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua>
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Subject: Re: Disable boot -s 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:36:50 GMT."
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On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:36:50 GMT, Andrew wrote:

> Can I disable booting the kernel with -s option? 

No, but you _can_ force the supseruser to supply a password in
single-user mode.  To do this, change your ``console'' entry in
/etc/ttys so that it is "insecure" instead of "secure".  The comments in
that file explain this.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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