From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 1 13:18:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07720 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07661 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA02972; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:05:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:05:18 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: Karl Pielorz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot banner (securing FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <34D36A17.44B3EDFC@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Remove the floppy drive? - and secure the case (with a padlock)?... I am not looking for that level of security; I am mostly just curious. By the same token, I am hoping that there would be some way of preventing a person from circumventing FreeBSDs security than just walking up to a machine with 2 disks. Sun, with their NVRAM password accomplishes this; you need to actually open the case (which can also be easily secured), and without loosing functionality. The equivalent solution that I can see is to remove the floppy drive, and that looses the functionality of the floppy drive from within the program. -- David Cross UNIX Systems Administrator GE Corporate R&D