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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,info.bsdi.users,mvis.lists.bsdi-users Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eff.org!sed.psrw.com!news.apk.net!wariat.org!news.nask.pl!news.icmp.lviv.ua!news.freenet.kiev.ua!news.isf.kiev.ua!news.free.net!news.phys.msu.su!news.rssi.ru!demos!satisfy.kiae.su!news.simtel.ru!--techno.ru--:ExServ_V05.01.08 From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Subject: Making booting secure Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 03:02:18 +0400 Message-ID: <52peqv$85h@lynx.unm.edu> Reply-To: "Colin E. Johnson" <colinj@unm.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: simtel.ru Sender: news-server@simtel.ru (ExServ V05.01.08) Approved: bsdi-users@mvc.net X-Return-Path: <devnull@techno.ru> X-CRC-ID: :5e617a58:afbd7bc3:28a58741: Lines: 14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5052 info.bsdi.users:9199 I'm upgrading about 30 machines to 2.1 and I need to make the boot process as secure as possible. They all sit in a "public" lab so any user who saw fit could power one off, restart the machine and then interrupt the init process to get a single user shell. I'm looking for a way to make the entire process secure so this cannot happen. Either I would like init (and the rc scripts) to reboot the machine if the process is interrupted or I would like to force the user to enter some kind of password. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- "Now my life is better than an ABBA song" - Muriel, "Muriel's Wedding" Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/