Hi At 16:35 22.03.2004 +0000, you wrote: >"Erich Titl" wrote: >>Personally I doubt it. Reading and building an ISO filesystem is rather >trivial >>and should your LEAF box ever be compromised replacing the ISO file is >easy. >>I would rather just remove the modules for IDE support from memory at the >end >>if the init process. Then you need to either plug those in again (loading >them across >>the link) or reboot to access the hard disk at all. You could even boot off >the >>harddisk that way, forgetting the floppy alltogether. > >If the system were compromised then adding the disk support would be as easy >as replacing the iso image.
True if you know which modules to load, your disk on the other hand will respond immediately. This can be avouded. You might even make insmod only available at boot time. Then getting access to your harware becomes quite a challenge. >Using the iso image and comparing the md5 >checksum >at boot time would at least ensure that if the image was tampered with, the >system >would refuse to boot. True, but it would also unveil your protection method. cheers Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
