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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: autologin? Date: 18 Nov 1995 13:49:48 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <48kkpc$l5s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48heab$gou@acmex.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins <gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu> wrote: >Under Irix5.3 you can have the machine autologin root upon a reboot; >can I do this under FreeBSD? Nobody in his right mind would do this (think about it). This is one of the gratuitous security misfeatures of IRIX. (This is not to say that there are no opportunities to do this, but i refuse to post recipes on how to make a machine entirely insecure.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)