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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Security question Date: 4 Dec 1993 10:43:55 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2dpplb$bkl@wzv.win.tue.nl> References: <2dodgn$s9s@bigboote.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) writes: > How do you assure the security of PC running FreeBSD, and being used > as an X windows workstation? During the boot process, I can escape into > single user mode as root. Now I can remount the file system as r/w and > change the root password. For that matter, I can do almost anything I want. > Essentially I am asking, how can you assure security when anyone has access > to the console? >== hmctague@wpi.edu == >== Henry R McTague == You can take another init(8). There is one that makes the system asked for the root password when 1) you boot single user 2) /dev/console is secure in /etc/ttys Further you can disable the ctrl-alt-del sequence if you like to. -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0