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Re: Is "linux single" a security concern?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Thu Oct 31 18:44:01 1996
From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: j.paulini@tu-bs.de
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:41:13 -0500 (EST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610312310.SAA19197@redhat.com> from "Joachim Paulini" at Nov 1, 96 00:10:10 am
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Joachim Paulini wrote:
> It is more secure to go into the BIOS settings and require a password
> to boot the machine.
Most BIOS passwords are also trivially crackable. There is a DOS program
called AMICRACK that supposedly will retrieve a "lost" AMI BIOS password.
Bill
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