Good point.

I recommend that any box placed into a colo or a location that the
security isn't under your direct control to mark your console as
"insecure" in /etc/ttys so that root password will be asked when someone
boots into single user mode.

Weldon

If memory serves me right, sometime around Yesterday, Brett Glass told me:

> In a word, yes. Looks like they went to the box with a
> keyboard and a mouse, rebooted, and tried to log in.
> Clearly, they were so clueless that they did not know
> about single-user mode.
>
> --Brett
>
> At 10:50 AM 2/5/2002, Victor Grey wrote:
>
> -----------------------------
> >Feb 3 23:56:20 p2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> ><snip>
> >Feb 3 23:58:59 p2 /kernel: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Dec 26 12:01:30
> >PST 2001
> ><snip>
> >Feb 3 23:59:00 p2 /kernel: psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> >Feb 3 23:59:00 p2 /kernel: psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> ><snip>
> >Feb 4 00:43:38 p2 login: 3 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyv0
> >Feb 4 00:43:38 p2 login: 3 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyv0, root
> >-----------------------------
>
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