On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:56:39AM -0700, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
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>I have a one comment and one question.
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[snip]
>A few steps to recovery
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> 1.Boot into single user mode. For i386 arch type boot -s at the boot
>prompt.
It is debatable whether you want a system to allow paswordless single user
mode. In a locked machine room, or your home station, where an intruder
who has arrived at the console has already hosed you beyond much futher point
in defense, it may be more useful to keep this default behavior. If you are
using the machine in a somewhat more vulnerable environment - say a computer
lab - then you can require the root password for single-user by setting all
the terminals in /etc/ttys from "secure" to "insecure".
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[snip]
>Now for my question. What file system does OpenBSD run? Do they have a
>Journaling FS? Does OpenBSD require you to deal with Disk Labels Like
>Solaris?
I've not dealt with SoLartUs disklabels, but Free/Open/NetBSD certainly
use disklabels. Coming from a Linux background, i find the naming scheme
needlessly baroque, but there it is. The FS is pretty classical UFS; assuming
the OpenBSD crew have finally finished their audit, or maybe learned to
trust McKusick, it may support softupdates, which is not exactly journalling
but does provide a number of journalling-style features at a much lower
resource overhead.
Since we're brushing the realm of commercial OSen, i should mention i just
installed the BSDi developer kit on my office workstation, to support the
BSD/OS setup we have in the machine room, and it seems pretty cool.
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