Console -- insecure settings

[Michael Ross]

Am .10.2015, 13:21 Uhr, schrieb Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org>:

> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:32:48AM +0000, Moreno Carullo typed:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to set the console as insecure as documented here:
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot-introduction.html
>>
>> the issue is that the system seems to ignore the setting, as the single  
>> user mode does NOT prompt for password.
>
> I think the documentation is wrong, because /etc/ttys is read by init,  
> and init doesn't run in single user mode.
> Single user mode means /bin/sh replaces init.

I tried this here just now, and having set "console" to "insecure",
the system prompts for the root password as documented.

10.1-RELEASE-p10



Regards,

Michael


>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Moreno
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