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From: taob@zot.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode
Date: 27 Jun 1996 12:48:10 -0400
Organization: Internex Online Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Message-ID: <4que0a$no5@zot.io.org>
References: <DtM9Az.Equ@caprica.com> <4qu5s7$aq@anorak.coverform.lan>
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In article <4qu5s7$aq@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Just run "shutdown now" from multi-user or type "-s" at the Boot: prompt.
>You won't be asked for root's password.
... unless you've marked the console tty as insecure in
/etc/gettytab. It is secure by default, but I thought I'd mention it
anyway. :)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"