From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 9 19:29:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BFF37B406 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7A2bRm90426; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:37:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:37:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELEASE 4.3 -> RELENG_4_3: SUCCESSFULLY but ... In-Reply-To: <20010801235514.D1443@tao.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:01:41PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > > My question is: what is the real danger of doing `installworld` in > > multiuser mode? I have doing a lot of tests in other machines tracking > > STABLE and I have no problems so far. > > I've _always_ done installworld in multiuser on many servers. That > doesn't mean that it's the safest way, but it was safe enough for me. > > Joe > Well, I got talked into trying this and it panic'd the running kernel, so I won't do it that way again! I know lots of folks have gotten away with this, but it seems to be Russian Roulette.. I now have a "boot.config" file with "-h" in it and a null modem cable to my portmaster. I reboot into single-user, telnet into the portmaster and get on the serial port. Works very well. You could also cross-connect serial ports from another server. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message