[99575] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Woodward)
Sun Nov 15 19:22:51 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:27:10 +1100 (EST)
From: Jim Woodward <jim@jim.southcom.com.au>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Edward Ing wrote:
> 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 any unix system is insecure if they have access to the console..
they can reboot it, hit the power switch, pull the plug, shut ti down pull
the harddisk out put it in another machine, mount it..
point is that ypou have gotta have some kinda physical security too
there are just so many possibilities in this respect.
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