Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:37:07 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Subject: Re: xhost +localhost Message-ID: <ef60af0905020317375cdf500a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050204004840.GY8619@alzatex.com> References: <ef60af0905020218193eea1fc9@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEDHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <ef60af0905020305433c03cc4c@mail.gmail.com> <20050203134948.06fee67a@localhost> <20050204004840.GY8619@alzatex.com>
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:48:40 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:49:48PM -0500, epilogue wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 > > Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt > > > <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > > > > > While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb > > > > enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible then user > > > > Ted can come along and power cycle it into single user mode and wipe > > > > his disks whether he has the root password or not. > > > > While i quite agree with Ted's encouraging Gert to run X as joe user, > > rather than root (for a variety of security related reasons) it is a > > trivial matter implement a password requirement for boot -s. This way, > > even if a user can boot -s, they *must* have the root passwd. > > Well, with the bit about removing the cmos battery, I think he was also > getting at changing the bios so that other boot media like floppies or > cds can be used, then what good is a root password? > > <snip> > > > my 2 cents CAD for the day. > > > > > > cheers, > > epi > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > I sense much NT in you. > NT leads to Bluescreen. > Bluescreen leads to downtime. > Downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside. > Powerful Unix is. > > Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C > For the love of god please dont do that meaning passwords get lost and single user mode is just fine the way it is.
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