From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 17:56:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zaltana.hermans.ca (h24-65-98-182.ed.shawcable.net [24.65.98.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E6C37B40D for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jhermansw2k (jhermans.inside [192.168.28.100]) by zaltana.hermans.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0BBEC6AE for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:56:53 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jamie Hermans" To: Subject: 2.2.8 and single user mode Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:56:36 -0600 Organization: hermans.ca Message-ID: <000001c1494a$c1a88960$641ca8c0@jhermansw2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 Hi... We have a bunch (OK, hundreds) of FreeBSD 2.2.8 machines in production right now, and we've some across an interesting "snag" while trying to tighten down security on them. (Please do not suggest upgrading - that is not an option at this time.) Normally, by editing the file /etc/ttys, and changing the console line to "insecure", you are required to enter root's password when booting in single user mode. At least this is how it works in current versions of FreeBSD. Was/is there a trick to make this work under 2.x? Right now, we get to the password prompt (or press ^D to continue in multi-user mode), but root's password does not work. In fact, nothing works ... ^D goes multi-user as expected, and just pressing Enter does the same thing. Help :) -- Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message