From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 18:36:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7DA37B404 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9764B901A1D; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:35:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:35:10 -0500 From: mpd To: warrior@mailbox.riga.lv Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root password Message-ID: <20020315213510.C40973@rochester.rr.com> References: <200203160222.g2G2MYk30470@smtp.delfi.lv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200203160222.g2G2MYk30470@smtp.delfi.lv>; from warrior@mailbox.riga.lv on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:22:34AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:22:34AM +0000, warrior@mailbox.riga.lv wrote: > Is the any way to secure FreeBSD if an intruder HAS the access to *Reset* button > and theres no passwords on booting/etc? (Let's consider this option) > so, the following combination wouldn't work: > > *reset* > boot -s > mount -u / > mount -a > passwd root > exit > > Thanks. > This is in the handbook section 7.5.2. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "YOU WERE RIGHT POKEY! GLOOMY GLORIA WAS A WITCH!" - Little Girl from "POKEY WAS CORRECT" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message