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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Password for SingleUser Mode
Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:16:43 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Christopher T. Origer) writes:

> : How is it possible to deny the single user mode when booting from
> the harddisk : or to ask for a password before starting a shell?

> See /etc/securetty.

Hmm, i don't have this file here. :)

Mark the "console" entry in /etc/ttys as "insecure".

-- 
cheers, J"org

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