Single user mode

Sergio Tam tam.sergio at gmail.com
Sun May 13 13:31:08 UTC 2012


2012/5/13 mahdieh salamat <mahdieh.salamat at gmail.com>:
> Hi everybody. I have a question about single user mode in FreeBSD. Security
> is so important for me. I want to know that if someone don't know my root's
> password can access to it? In other words in our FreeBSD we don't have
> FreeBSD boot loader menu, we delete it for our users becouse of security. I
> want to know is there any other way except boot loader menu for our user to
> access to our root's password?
> Thanks


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html

13.6.2 Single-User Mode

If the system console is set to insecure in /etc/ttys, then the system
prompts for the root password before initiating single-user mode



Regards.


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