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On 27 Nov 90 21:16:21 GMT, neruda@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Steve Neruda) said:

neruda> Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about preventing
neruda> single user mode booting in order to protect root.  There were
neruda> basically three solutions:

The best solution is of course to protect the network from any sysadmin
who thinks that this is anything else than a security hazard (again: the
greatest security hazard is a false sense of security). Or maybe to send
him/her to a course on basic principles of security. Or maybe to induce
him/her to read something about project Athena (or Andrew) and their
solutions -- effective (if not perfect) solutions, instead of jokes, I
mean -- to the problem.

Maybe there should be a FAQ posting in this newgroup and this should be
part of it -- the issue gets raised again and again always in the same
depressing way. It is understandable that hard pressured syadmins have
no time for hard thinking and reach for the quick and dangerous fix...

Or maybe I should paraphrase the nice Feynman quote that somebody uses as
their signature line:

"For a successful security, reality must take precedence over public
 relations, for hackers cannot be fooled."

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