"Kurt Seifried" wrote: ... >Problem: user can enter Lilo commands at the Lilo prompt ... >Additional solution: remove/replace password in lilo.conf after setting it >(i.e. set password, run lilo, remove password).
You may not have noticed mbr: bash-2.04$ dpkg --status mbr Package: mbr Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 42 Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.1.2-1 Description: Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible computers. This is used in booting Linux from the hard disk. The MBR runs first, then transfers control to LILO, which transfers control to the Linux kernel. As far as I can see, install-mbr can be used to second-guess the BIOS on available boot devices, and by default allows one to boot from floppy even if the BIOS has floppy-booting disabled (or after the hard disk). You get the mbr prompt if you press Ctrl too early when waiting for the lilo prompt. If you are making a big thing of security against those with physical access, you need to mention this package, which is required and is silently installed in a Debian installation. (It exists because the standard pc MBR is a non-free Microsoft product.) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== " ...Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Luke 12:15
