i386/86415: full access to machine

[Nate Eldredge]

The following reply was made to PR i386/86415; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Eldredge <nge at cs.hmc.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, leo411man at yahoo.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/86415: full access to machine
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:08:39 -0700 (PDT)

 This isn't a bug.  If you control the boot process there are any number of 
 ways to get at the operating system without a password.  This is a 
 feature: how else would you get back into the machine if you lost the root 
 password?  The simplest, documented way to do it without any special 
 software is just to enter "boot -s" at the loader prompt.
 
 Maintainers, you may want to close this.
 
 -- 
 Nate Eldredge
 nge at cs.hmc.edu