On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 09:58:53PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must > > enter a password to boot and/or mounting "/" > > Next to the usual means of access control (no automated login, no > users without password), there would be an option to boot the system > in single user mode first. Your /etc/ttys would contain "insecure" > in the 5th field so nobody would get into the shell without the > root password. Then, fsck and mount -a, followed by "exit" or Ctrl-D > would be neccessary to boot the system into multi user mode. To > boot your system into SUM, I think /boot/loader.conf must contain > the line ,,boot_single="YES"''.
Assuming physical access to the machine, this can be easily circumvented by booting from a FreeBSD CD. Of yourse you can disable booting from CD in the BIOS, and guard that with a password. But that is usually easy to wipe by shorting a jumper on the motherboard. It just depends on the amount of time and knowledge that the attacker has. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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