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Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X
From: Marc Liyanage <liyanage () access ch>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:37:37 +0200
Other issues for OS X is that anyone could boot into single user mode and have root with out any authentication. Although this usually isn't a problem for servers, it is for computers used in K12 and higher education along with kiosks.
I *think* this can be prevented by setting an Open Firmware password on newer machines which support the feature. This will prevent - Single user boot - Verbose boot - Hitting the Alt key to select a different boot volume and probably other stuff... http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/.Public/Texts/Open%20Firmware%20-%20Password.txt I'm not sure if they fixed that password bypass thing by changing the amount of RAM, though. But at least you have to open up the machine to do this. -Marc -- _________________________________________________________________ Marc Liyanage liyanage () access ch http://www.entropy.ch ICQ 5077985 Yoda I am. Grammar I can't. _________________________________________________________________
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- Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Benjamin Gardiner (Sep 02)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Ethan Benson (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Matthew Seaman (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Marukka (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Marc Liyanage (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X kang (Sep 03)
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- RE: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Dixie Flatline (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Stuart Moore (Sep 03)
- Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X Ethan Benson (Sep 03)