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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!garden.WPI.EDU!hmctague From: hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Security question Date: 3 Dec 1993 22:10:31 GMT Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 10 Message-ID: <2dodgn$s9s@bigboote.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: garden.wpi.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] How do you assure the security of PC running FreeBSD, and being used as an X windows workstation? During the boot process, I can escape into single user mode as root. Now I can remount the file system as r/w and change the root password. For that matter, I can do almost anything I want. Essentially I am asking, how can you assure security when anyone has access to the console? == hmctague@wpi.edu == == Henry R McTague ==