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Re: Is "linux single" a security concern?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Buck)
Fri Nov 1 12:25:44 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:19:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Buck <jeffb@pegasus.usmicro.net>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Bill D wrote:
> 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.
>
Uh.. ok.. let's see you crack that when you can't get the machine to boot.
At that point, your only way in is to short the bios (also a very trivial
task). You'll never get into a linux box using a dos program to sniff out
the bios password though.
-Jeff
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