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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 12:43:27 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: nfs mounts / su / yp
Message-ID:  <20010514124326.C2009@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010514213854.A34209@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:38:54PM %2B0200
References:  <20010514200927.A32697@student.uu.se> <Pine.WNT.4.10.10105141416260.-559341@rosencrantz.east.isi.edu> <20010514204259.A33451@student.uu.se> <3B00295D.24643CD7@centtech.com> <3B002E2B.1337F4C9@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010514122650.T18676@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010514213854.A34209@student.uu.se>

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* Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> [010514 12:39] wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:26:50PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > FreeBSD has securelevels, while not ideal, if implemented properly
> > they can limit what root can do.
> 
> Yes, but if users have physical access to the machine they can always reboot
> into single user mode. In that case securelevels don't help.
> 
> It is very difficult to secure a machine completely if users have physical
> access to it.

My apologies, I didn't realize you were talking about physical access.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html

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