And if the cracker has a screwdriver and knows which jumper on your
motherboard to close, he's still in. Physical security, indeed.
Ryan Caveney
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: RE: Root doesn't accept password
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
>
>>> 'linux 1' at the LILO prompt gets in as root w/o password.
>>
>> Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy?
>
>Can you say "physical security?" I knew you could! A good first step is
>setting a BIOS boot password if your system supports one.
>
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>Todd A. Jacobs
>Network Systems Engineer
>
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