Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603311030.MAA10659@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603302103.OAA09744@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 30, 96 02:03:57 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Now, if someone is concerned about naive users spamming themselves then > > perhaps we need to think about an automated recovery disk but that's not > > what fixit is all about. > > What, like: > > 1) I forgot my root password, set it it 'dork' > 2) It wants me to fsck my '/' parition > 3) I tried (unsuccessfully) to start X from /etc/ttys > 4) ... All of this can be handled fine by booting with `-s'. Of course, 1) couldn't be helped iff the user declared his console location to be `insecure'. But this ain't the default, and people who care more for security than recoverability have to care for a reasonable recovery strategy anyway. -- 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. ;-)
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