Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: btr!jbauman@decwrl.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Root password and single user boot Keywords: No Digest Subjects in Unmoderated Mode Message-ID: <3120@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sunspots, Psuedo-Unmoderated Lines: 14 Approved: sun-spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: 10 May 91 23:15:39 GMT 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..... Thanks for the help... Jim Bauman jbauman@btr.com .