Subject: Re: bootloader
To: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/21/2002 00:48:29
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Daniel Eggert wrote:
> I _think_ setting console tu not be 'secure' in ttys will also ask for 
> a password when booting into single user, but I'm not sure about this 
> on NetBSD. (use with caution)

It will, but if the user can write to a partition, there are other ways
to become root from the bootloader prompt.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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