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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode Date: 29 Jun 1996 16:57:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4r3na0$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DtM9Az.Equ@caprica.com> <4qu5s7$aq@anorak.coverform.lan> <4qucvt$f9m@news.tamu.edu> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed) wrote: > Unless, of course, you've gone into /etc/ttys and changed the entry for > console from "secure" to "insecure". > > That's good incentive to make sure you remember the root password, no? > > There might be a way to make an end run around that problem by booting > from the installation floppy, mounting the fixit floppy, and working > forward from there. Has anyone tried jumping through such a set of hoops? Well, you could even prevent this if your BIOS is recent enough. Disable floppy booting, protect your BIOS with a password, and forget it. :-)) (Of course, despite of this, the fixit floppy will help you out of the dilemma.) -- 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. ;-)