On Monday 27 October 2003 02:40 pm, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:28:19 +0000
>     From:        "Sung N. Cho" <sucho2@vt.edu>
>     Message-ID:  <200310270928.19279.sucho2@vt.edu>
>
>   | On previous releases, I had "insecure" option put in the /etc/ttys
>   | file so it would require a passwd to enter into single user mode.
>   | Has the option for passwd requirement for single user only mode
>   | changed from "insecure" to something else?
>
> There has never been such an option.   However, I presume that now
> ttyflags complains about unknown keywords, which were simply ignored
> before.
>
> For "secure" there are 2 choices, either a line is "secure" and the
> "secure" option is in /etc/ttys - or it is not (the secure option is
> not given).
>
> There's no need to claim the line is insecure, all you need to is
> not state that it is secure.
>
> That is, delete "insecure" and all should work the way that you expect
> (provided this is on the "console" entry in /etc/ttys, there is a "root"
> in /etc/passwd, and root has a password set, if any of those fail, no
> password will be requested).
>
> kre

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,
Sung N. Cho,
Monday, Oct. 27, 2003.

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Sung N. Cho
Department of Physics
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Computational Nanoscience Lab, 222 Robeson Hall
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435
United States of America

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