[99621] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brichardson@lineone.net)
Mon Nov 16 05:47:47 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:46:27 GMT
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FROM: brichardson@lineone.net
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Edward Ing wrote:
>Linux thus seems quite insecure
No, PC's are insecure. No OS can get round the hard-wired design of the PC
BIOS, which allows booting from drive A (although there is a DOS virus which
can lock up some CMOSes). If you want to stop people from doing any damage
once they have used a boot-disk on your server then _encrypt_ your file
system. The CFS package from Matt Blaze does just this. You can get an RPM
or a kernel patch at www.relay.com
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