SUMMARY: Stoping root access by b -sw on SunOS 4.1.3

From: Mark Hargrave (root@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov)
Date: Thu Mar 06 1997 - 14:00:57 CST


The following command is what I needed:

eeprom security-mode=command

This will set a password on the eeprom which will be prompted when
booting up the machine at single-user mode.

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Another method was to declare my console insecure.

Make the following change to /etc/ttytab:

#
# @(#)ttytab 1.7 92/06/23 SMI
#
# name getty type status comments
#
console "/usr/etc/getty cons8" sun on local unsecure

The only problem with this is that I couldn't login as "root" once
the system was booted.

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Thanks for all the replies:

John Bradley <john.bradley@sunman>
Amanul Haque <ahaque@psa.pencom.com>
thad@pokey (Thad Macmillan)
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
Michael Kohne <mhkohne@moberg.com>
djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)
"Matthew Stier" <mstier@hotmail.com>
David Moline (drm@gcs.com.au)
"Brent M. McIntosh" <Brent_M._McIntosh@cc-gateway1.bal.bna.boeing.com>
mgrs@nmc12.chinalake.navy.mil
Fran Grassi <tdl6k79@link.com>
Saarinen Matti <mjs@butler.cc.tut.fi>
Stuart.Little@dpcs-sw.co.uk
Marc A Maier <mmaier1@osf1.gmu.edu>
alevin@ltcm.com (Avi J. Levin)
John Justin Hough <john@oncology.uthscsa.edu>
vqh@dwrock.dw.lucent.com (D461-Viet_Q_Hoang(0)82572)
"Joao Luiz E. Tiburcio" <joao@telemig.gov.br>
Jens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>
Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
baldma@aur.alcatel.com (Mark A. Baldwin) (Go LSU Tigers!)
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>

Thanks,

Mark

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 Mark Hargrave, Unix Systems Manager
 Lockheed Martin Manned Space Systems
 New Orleans, LA

 Phone: 504-257-1242
 E-Mail: meh@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov
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