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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Security on A/UX
Message-ID: <4374@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 88 04:30:22 GMT
References: <3242@emory.uucp> <3ef0c920.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <756@a.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <756@a.lanl.gov> chn@a.lanl.gov (Charles Neil) writes:
>If the init program were set to boot all the way to multiuser with passwords
>required, and the floppie(s) were not available, would there be any way to
>break out into sash?  Is such a system secure?

Well, you power off and reboot the system, then press the programmer switch to
get to the debugger,... (maybe just holding shift-option-clover or whatever
to rebuild the desktop will do it).

Secure from what?

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)