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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:14:02 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        maanjee@gmail.com
Cc:        jerrymc@msu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Password Security
Message-ID:  <200611230914.kAN9E2GW065034@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0611230056l15bfccaamb3ed3d439e2786b8@mail.gmail.com> (message from VeeJay on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:56:23 %2B0100)
References:  <2cd0a0da0611211941iae07787q3f433fb2c8ab1f22@mail.gmail.com> <20061122163317.GC50939@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <2cd0a0da0611230056l15bfccaamb3ed3d439e2786b8@mail.gmail.com>

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> And how can one into the System by booting from a CD if it still
> requires the Password even in Single User mode?

Booting from CD, floppy or hard disk is slected at BIOS level.

Booting in single or multi user mode is at Operating system level.

Booting is in the following order:

1) BIOS select what medium to boot from

2) the operating system boot from the selected medium

So when it comes to the Single user password, itis already at stage 2)
it has passed the stage 1 (booting from hard disk ofr CD) without
password.

Olivier



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