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Article #8526Re: Root password and single user boot
From: Larry Martell
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 19:40
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 19:40
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In article <3120@brchh104.bnr.ca> btr!jbauman@decwrl.dec.com writes: >Is there a way to prevent someone from stepping up to >a workstation, giving the Sun 2 fingered salute (L1-A), booting single >user, modifying the password file (i.e. removing a root password), >then coming back on the net to pursue "other activities"? Surely there >must be a mechanism to ask for the root password even after booting single >user..... > From the ttytab(5) man page: If the console is not marked "secure," the system prompts for the root password before coming up in single- user mode. So, in your ttytab file remove the word secure from the console line. Larry Martell "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one, 212-668-9478 but nobody wants to look at the other guys" uunet!st-andy!larry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: uunet!st-andy!larry@uunet.uu.net (Larry Martell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Root password and single user boot Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <3791@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 12 Jun 91 19:40:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 18:19:50 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 106, message 11 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu