Root password and single user boot

[Larry Martell]

In article <3120 at brchh104.bnr.ca> btr!jbauman at decwrl.dec.com writes:
>Is there a way to prevent someone from stepping up to
>a workstation, giving the Sun 2 fingered salute (L1-A), booting single
>user, modifying the password file (i.e. removing a root password),
>then coming back on the net to pursue "other activities"? Surely there
>must be a mechanism to ask for the root password even after booting single
>user.....
>

>From the ttytab(5) man page:

If  the  console  is not marked "secure," the system
prompts for the root password before coming  up  in  single-
user  mode.

So, in your ttytab file remove the word secure from the console line.

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