On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked: > He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about > GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords?
That is the same regardless of operating system. Physical access == no security. > How can anyone easily avoid the problem of anyone being able to access > the guts of his machine using a live CD? I already thought of one: > use the BIOS to disallow booting from a CD or Floppy, and set a > password on the BIOS. Don't know whether all BIOSes will allow this, > and anyway, isn't it possible on a lot of motherboards to short out > the EPROM and thus reset the password of the BIOS? You can also encrypt the contents of your hard drive. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO/ W -- Q: What's an anagram of "Banach-Tarski" ? A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" Sortir en Pantoufles: up 155 days, 4:42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
