On Saturday, August 27, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:07, JSD wrote: > > > > I have a big root access problem. If someone has physical > > access to my OpenBSD box, than he/she can swith into single > > user mode (-s) and can change the password of root. It is a > > big problem for me and I would like to password protect this > > single user mode or to totally disable this function but I > > don't know how. > > In your bios, you should be able to set a boot password which will prevent > booting until the password is given.
Oh god, please just read the ttys(5) manual, and mark the console as not being secure. PC's in general are shitty pieces of hardware that are easy to circumvent. You BIOS password would prevent the machine from booting automatically after power outtage for example... --Toby.
