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RE: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Domingue)
Sun Nov 15 19:16:11 1998
From: "Jeremy Domingue" <jer@cybersurfers.net>
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:14:38 -0800
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If your server is in an area accessible by other people and you are
concerned about it, you could always lock the keyboard. But if someone wants
to do damage to your server, it doesn't matter if you have NT, SCO, BSD, or
any other OS... if they have physical access to it, they can hurt it. Even
if you have a nice secure locking case, they can still pull the plug on it
and remove it from service.
Basically, just be careful who you give physical access to...
Jeremy Domingue
jer@cybersurfers.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edward Ing [mailto:ingal@home.com]
>Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 4:12 PM
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Forget root password, help.
>
>
>Linux thus seems quite insecure.
>If someone has physical access to your machine, they could go in and change
>your root password on you. You of course could change it backe when you
>noticed something went wrong, but within that time he could have done
>something horrible.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Domingue <jer@cybersurfers.net>
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
>Cc: nupt89@hotmail.com <nupt89@hotmail.com>
>Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 7:04 PM
>Subject: RE: Forget root password, help.
>
>
>>Have you tried booting in single user mode? At the LILO prompt, just type
>in
>>'linux 1' (assuming that you kept the default label of 'linux' for your
>>linux partition).
>>
>>Jeremy Domingue
>
>
>
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