From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 3 11:16:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from allmaui.com (server25.aitcom.net [208.234.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96A037B718; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@allmaui.com) Received: from allmaui.com (pwnat-2-o.placeware.com [209.1.15.34]) by allmaui.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11992; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:16:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3ACA12FF.F4000B95@allmaui.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:14:23 -0700 From: Craig Cowen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su change? References: <005401c0bc63$7cb36650$0202a8c0@majorzoot> <001f01c0bc68$681a2b20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010403140935.F9618@pir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FALSE! If you have the boot prom set not to allow booting from cdrom, you're bummin' 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. > > P. > > -- > pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message