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From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: autologin?
Date: 20 Nov 1995 10:25:21 +0000
Organization: Visual and Information DEsign centre, Coventry Universtiy
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 18 Nov 1995 13:49:48 +0100
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>>>>> "JW" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
JW> 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?
JW> Nobody in his right mind would do this (think about it). This is
JW> one of the gratuitous security misfeatures of IRIX.
^^^
amen to that. In its defense, it defaults to a sensible configuration.
And the there is a chapter on security in the advanced administration
book.
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