In addition to the BIOS password you can also add a password to grub, but like Andrew said, if someone has physical access to the machine they own it.
So now you're wondering if windows has the same scary "back door". Of course it does. Suppose you had a server with critical data on it and you had to fire the guy who has the root password, but he changed the password without telling anyone else 'cause he knew he was getting fired. Now what do you do? There's a floppy disk you can download that will let you reset the administrator password on a windows machine. It isn't made by microsoft, but it seems to work on all current versions of windows. (It's a linux floppy by the way.) http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ - Andrew On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:10:58 -0600, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:50:09PM -0600, Ben Burgon wrote: > > Wow. I had never heard of that before. That's kind of scary to me. > > How would I dissable that feature? > > > > You can add a BIOS password. > > But no matter what, if someone has physical access to your machine they > can do whatever they want. > > -- > Andrew McNabb > http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ > PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > > -- Andrew Jorgensen _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
