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From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Circumventing immutable file protections
Date: 16 Aug 1995 13:05:55 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In <40j0iu$j13@hamlet.m-u-b.de> toni@hamlet.m-u-b.de (Toni Mueller) writes:
>If security is that important, I would probably try to make the machine
>non-autobootable (kernel patch ?) so that any modified /etc/rc scripts would

Just remove the bootblocks from the hard disk. On NetBSD, "disklabel
-e -r" should do it. (I haven't tried this of course :) I assume the
other BSDs do it the same or nearly the same way.

-Olaf.
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