Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-10 Thread J.P. Larocque
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:26:23AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > If they are trying to get root an have physical access to the box for > get about it, one floppy will get me root on any x86 Linux box I have > physial access to. There are a few ways to physically secure a box, that should work

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:00:04AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: :This is a general question for the list. I have a computer at home that I want to make availble for the family to use. However I want to try and ensure that they won't be able to do anything that could cause damage to the OS. Wh

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Christoph Groth wrote: > > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? > > I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume > that your sister is not a cracker and your father

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume that your sister is not a cracker and your father not a