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From: steve@mimsy.UUCP (Steve D. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Async terminal as console on a Sun
Message-ID: <8176@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 08:39:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.8176
Posted: Wed Aug 26 08:39:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 03:40:48 EDT
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Reply-To: steve@mimsy.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Summary: hack init

We had a similar problem with Suns here at U.  of Maryland.  We have a
graphics lab with some Suns in it, and we too worried about people hosing
things on our net by powering one down and becoming root.  The solution we
(we == Fred Blonder, with input from some others as to what should be done;
I wasn't involved) implemented was to hack init to ask for a password before
going into single-user mode.  Of course, we had to hard-code the password,
but it's better than nothing and doesn't require hacking the PROMs.

As many of you probably realize, this isn't the most secure of solutions,
either.

	-Steve

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