On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
SPD>i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. It isn't: with physical access to your machine, anyone could boot of a cd/floppy, mount your root partition, zero out your root password and be your master from then on ;-) SPD>most importantly, is there a way to prevent this? You have (at least) these options: 1) remove Windows ;-) 2) use non-ext2,3 filesystems 3) use LVM instead of raw partitions for your filesystems Have fun, Andrea. -- M� muistan sen kirkkaan p�iv�n, sen kes�n ja sen valon h�iv�n Hein� haisi, puut tuoksui, linnut lauloi vaan Ja Lada ajaa kyl�n raitilla, Lada ajaa ja stereot soittaa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
