From owner-freebsd-arch Tue May 29 1:11:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CEE37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 01:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 154eap-0003ho-00; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:11:07 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA05723; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:11:06 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 5691; Tue May 29 10:10:32 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 154eaG-000O2a-00; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:10:32 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Mark Murray , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM, S/Key and authentication schemes. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 May 2001 16:53:38 +1000." <20010529165338.I89950@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:10:32 +0200 Message-ID: <92415.991123832@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 May 2001 16:53:38 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Which means that somewhere there needs to be a note that if your > console is marked 'insecure' then /etc/master.passwd must contain a > root password that crypt(3) can understand (irrespective of how eg > login(1) might authenticate a root login attempt). Otherwise, someone > is sure to get bitten. The init(8) man page is one possibility, but > I'm not sure it's the obvious place to look when you discover you're > locked out of single-user mode. I reckon /etc/ttys and the release notes ought to do it. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message