This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then > > give root another password.
> But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your > back. > I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being > strong.. :) > Liviu That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical access to my laptop, both GRUB and LiveCD approach would be useless... -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 /ö\ Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not okay to /ö\ lose. /ö\ /ö\ -- Homer Simpson /ö\ Dead Putting Society
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