[99574] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damond Walker)
Sun Nov 15 19:19:18 1998
From: "Damond Walker" <moribund@netgsi.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:12:14 -0500
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>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.
Well, it would *seem* insecure but you don't really keep your servers
out in the open do ya? Production servers should be locked up tight
(physically that is) if at all possible. That and don't you think your
users would notice some kind of loss of service while the reboot was taking
place?
Damond
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