[Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:20:03 -0500] Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to > > data theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical > > access to the device by any means (which is more likely in case of > > mobile devices), could gain root access and do whatever one wants > > to do with the system as well as the data. One solution suggested > > to me was to set a BIOS password. That's good. > > > > I would like to know that is there any way once you forget your BIOS > > password. > > Yes. There will be a jumper on the motherboard that you can > connect to cause the NVRAM where the BIOS password is stored > to forget itself completely. > > In some machines, a battery is removed simultaneously or instead > of using the jumper. > > -dsr-
Be careful, because this is not true for all BIOS-implementations. I have seen HP computers where the BIOS can be locked permanently without reset (unless the motherboard is exchanged which will mean there is another BIOS). I am not quite sure, if this also applies to the passwords which are required to make the system boot, because I have never enabled such. Either way: Consult the documentation first or just try it out. HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.lima-city.de/
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