From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 3:23:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D8337BDA0 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e33Alkt02606; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:47:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Andrew , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disable boot -s Message-ID: <20000403034746.H21029@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000403125820.B74506@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000403125820.B74506@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>; from ru@ucb.crimea.ua on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 12:58:20PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ruslan Ermilov [000403 03:28] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:36:50AM +0000, Andrew wrote: > > Can I disable booting the kernel with -s option? > > > No, you can't (without changing the sources), > but why do you need this? My assumption is added security, if you want that then you ought to read /etc/ttys: # This entry needed for asking password when init goes to single-user mode # If you want to be asked for password, change "secure" to "insecure" here console none unknown off secure you can force -s to ask for the root password. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message