Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:50:15 +0100 From: "Ian O'Friel" <Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Potential Problem.... Message-ID: <000101bd6a49$44e5a720$41f14ac2@metallica>
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I don't know if anyone else has suffered this but I have and I would like to tell everyone about it...... I am setting up a system for friends and family to dial-up my PC running FreeBSD 2.2.5. The machine has Advanced power Management so I edited rc.conf so that the APM line read "YES" instead of "NO" but I mistakenly pur in "YES with only one speech mark. I had set my machine up with several groups and lots of users... but I found that after rebooting this problem caused an error in the startup procedure and automatically logged in as root. I think this could be a pontential problem if someone got access to the rc.conf file diliberately removed a few characters and rebooted the would be logged in as root which would allow them to create hell...... Any comments ? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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