From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 14:40:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dot.crosswinds.net (dot.crosswinds.net [209.47.139.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03715 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:40:42 GMT (envelope-from Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net) Received: from metallica ([194.74.241.65]) by dot.crosswinds.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28282 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:39:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net) Message-ID: <000101bd6a49$44e5a720$41f14ac2@metallica> From: "Ian O'Friel" To: Subject: Potential Problem.... Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:50:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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