On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:49:48PM -0500, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 > Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
