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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: Disabling L1-A sequence?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.214105.4462@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <23694@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Nov7.181811.11525@grebyn.com> <15389@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:41:05 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <15389@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>There is a file in /etc, either /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytab (I use both
- >>SunOS and Ultrix machines, and I can't currently remember which is
- >>which). The first line in the file should contain the word "console".
- >>There will be the word "secure" on that same line.
- >
- >In SunOS 4.x, it's "/etc/ttytab" (for binary-compatibility reasons),
- >but...
- >
- >>I think that if you delete the word "secure", L1-A will be disabled.
- >
- >...note that it doesn't completely *disable* L1-A, it just means that if
- >you try to come up single-user on the console, it'll ask you for the
- >root password.
- >
- You're right, of course. I assumed that security was the issue here and
- wrote my response in that way. I suppose that something like file
- system integrity could have been the issue as well.
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-