Wow... I had no idea that such my rather ambiguous position would
solicit such an overwhelming response. I thought I made it clear... "may
not be a bad thing" ... followed by the devil's advocate position.

Sheesh! ;)

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: A dot L dot M dot Buxey at lboro dot ac dot uk [mailto:A dot L dot M dot Buxey at lboro dot ac dot uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:47 AM
To: Oli
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Wishlist

Hi,

> > Password protection may not be a bad thing... but part of the point
of
> > the console is to recover from a lost password.
> 
> What if you lost your password to console ;) 

well, if you've got physical access to the system it isnt a problem.
just whip the disk
out, stick it into a FreeBSD box (or a Linux box with UFS fs/BSD
partition support enabled
in kernel) mount the disk and clear/change the password.

Alan

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