Indeed, i figured that if he/she would do something out-of-line that would cause repercussions from systems managment AND that it is possible that his/her sysadmin. is strung out on the job and cannot/does not want to support this effort but agrees the user can give it a shot. That way the user can propose a solution, i should have added the insecurity issue though.
-----Original Message----- From: MaD dUCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:49 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Is it possible... also sprach Joris Lambrecht (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 06:06:37PM +0100): > on windows 9x you can boot into Linux with > some-alternate-way-of-installing-but-i-think-i-forgot-the-name, isn't it the > umsdos install method ? loadlin? and yes, you could use umsdos. on windows 9x, you can also just simply exploit all the rights you don't have. and what i just thought of, if the person who initially posted this actually owns the machine, there are very easy ways to software break a bios password... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@ !#:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "a gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart that looks at her watch. -- james beard
