> on the otherhand, it's not a huge problem with linux, because linux is
> ridiculously easy to get into if you have physical access.
>
How do other unixes differ in regards to this?
On SGIs, running IRIX, you must enter the root password to boot into
single user mode. That doesn't prevent someone who has the inital IRIX
installation CD from booting from it, though, and then mounting the root
filesystem and changing the root password.
Jeff
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