[1756] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
[linux-security] Re: Checking remote servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Stone)
Sat May 16 03:13:50 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:27:55 -0400
From: Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>
In-reply-to: <13656.45583.290607.998704@newcnri.cnri.reston.va.us>; from Andrew
Kuchling on Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:54:32PM -0400
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
Quoting Andrew Kuchling (akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us):
> If the machine was sitting in front of you, you'd just reboot
> it with a boot floppy, and run a known-good version of RPM from the
> floppy, but that's not an option when the machine's on the other side
> of the country; someone local would have to reboot the machine every
> so often, run the verification, and then reboot again.
Why not put the whole root fs on a cdrom and run from there? Put the
hard drives on a separate controller that doesn't have boot code.
Mike Stone
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