I helped a friend install Ubuntu GNU/Linux on his laptop, he left
town, forgot his passwords, and I promised to breakin for him, so he
can re-do his passwords. Told him all I have to do is run Knoppix,
access his partition, and delete the little x in the password file.
Then he would reset his
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about
GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords?
That is the same regardless of operating system.
Physical access == no security.
On 4/16/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis
squawked:
He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about
GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords?
That is the same regardless
Alan E. Davis wrote:
I helped a friend install Ubuntu GNU/Linux on his laptop, he left
town, forgot his passwords, and I promised to breakin for him, so he
can re-do his passwords. Told him all I have to do is run Knoppix,
access his partition, and delete the little x in the password file.
Still, it would perhaps be somewhat comforting to be able to disable
EASY access to a mission critical system.
What about further disabling of access to /etc/passwd? Does SELinux
take any such steps? (Ok, I could look into this by reading TFM.
Apologies).
Alan
On 4/16/06, Alexander Skwar
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Still, it would perhaps be somewhat comforting to be able to disable
EASY access to a mission critical system.
Put them in a server room. Make sure, that only trusted people
have a key to that server room.
What about further disabling of access to /etc/passwd? Does
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Hi,
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Still, it would perhaps be somewhat comforting to be able to disable
EASY access to a mission critical system.
What about further disabling of access to /etc/passwd? Does SELinux
take any such steps? (Ok, I could look
Alan E. Davis wrote:
He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about
GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords?
Oh C'mon! Like you NEVER did the same on a Windows box. YES, you can do
something similar on NT/2K/XP/Whatever...
Encrypt your filesystems
On Sunday 16 April 2006 06:54, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Security from non-authorized logins':
I helped a friend install Ubuntu GNU/Linux on his laptop, he left
town, forgot his passwords, and I promised to breakin for him, so he
can re-do his passwords. Told
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