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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Password for SingleUser Mode Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:16:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4e15sr$bps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dnoq2$3pf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <4dpnmr$m5b@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Christopher T. Origer) writes: > : How is it possible to deny the single user mode when booting from > the harddisk : or to ask for a password before starting a shell? > See /etc/securetty. Hmm, i don't have this file here. :) Mark the "console" entry in /etc/ttys as "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. ;-)