From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 3 13:20:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CB337B71B; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 14kXIG-0003yA-00 ; Tue, 03 Apr 2001 16:20:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:20:47 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su change? Message-ID: <20010403162047.G13435@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010403140935.F9618@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jwyatt@rwsystems.net on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:30:12PM -0500 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Wyatt probably said: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > Matthew Emmerton probably said: > > > Just consider your friend lucky - doing similar things to the > > > root account on any enterprise UNIX (UnixWare, Solaris, AIX) > > > could require a complete reinstall - especially if it's running > > > C2-level security. > > False. > > Solaris, certainly, would just require booting from cdrom, mounting / > > and editing the password file. > Why is booting from CDROM a better fix than booting single-user from the > hard disk? The original poster wanted to avaoid a reboot *at all*. I didn't say it was better, I just corrected the comment that you'd have to reinstall. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message