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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How would you do this ?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:40:22 +0200
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Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>> Dumb question... but if you want to automatically enter the
>>password so it will be able to boot unattended, what's the point of
>>having a password there in the first place?
>
>
> Because I didn't write the program. And I am not as worried about the
> security aspect of the program as much as I am about it working "all the \
time"
If you are lucky and the guy didn't insist on using /dev/tty, or on
the standard input being a terminal, you should be able to hack
something like
echo "my no longer secret password" | this-dumb-program
in your /etc/rc.local. Otherwise, hard luck.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)