Well, it's probably also a good idea to disable booting from anything but the harddisk in BIOS and setting a BIOS password. Then you only have to worry about (assuming your passwords and software are secure, which they aren't) people getting physical access to the inside of your machine and disabling the BIOS password or putting in a new HD as primary master. And if that's a problem for you, put your machine behind a strong lock. But you are correct, nothing is impregnable. <SNIP> > I believe Mathew's post is correct in so far as it goes. But in answer to > Michael's question there is NO WAY to make any computer secure if someone > has access to the machine. Mathew's directions would prevent someone > from just booting the machine into super user mode IF they only used the > hard drive. But what's to keep them from inserting a floppy disk with > a bootable kernal and then mounting the hard drive file system? > Or slipping a couple of connectors and installing their own hard > drive and then mounting the old hard drive as a r/w harddisk. > > So use Mathew's suggestion but be aware that security starts with > limiting physical access to the machine. > > Jonathan > -- Matthew Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- random fortune quote -- You will lose your present job and have to become a door to door mayonnaise salesman.
