On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: > > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then > > > give root another password. > > > > But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more > > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in > > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password > > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your > > back. > > > > I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being > > strong.. :) > > Liviu > > That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS > encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over > DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical access to > my laptop, both GRUB and LiveCD approach would be useless...
I've thought about going for this . . . and then backpedaled once more. Every time I had a fs problem I have managed to recover to this date without much trouble. Vanilla primary and extended partitions seem to be straight forward to access with any LiveCD. To be honest even when I had to frig about with LVM I managed to recover without loss of data (more out of luck than skill I suspect). The thought however, that I may lose my private key (never say never), or lose a drive and need to access my data pronto from a back up makes me somewhat nervous. Should I be more brave that this? -- Regards, Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
