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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Password to single-user mode?
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Date: 16 May 91 09:33:40 GMT
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In article <Y7P+J-B@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>In <1991May14.181215.3306@viewlogic.com>, kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com writes:
>>Can you add a password so that Ms. Anybody cannot
>>walk up to my Sparc and boot single user?

>  Take 'secure' out of the entry for the console in /etc/ttytab. It'll

Even more secure would be changing the builtin-monitor security mode.
Look up "man eeprom" for more info.
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Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."