That being the case, a BIOS password would be needed as well. I could always pop in a knoppix cd and steal john's computer data ;)
--mat On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:36, Kevin Bucknum wrote: > > > >Is there a way to stop someone with physical access to the box > >from booting > >into single user mode and changing the root password? I'm not > >interested in > >solutions that require setting a boot or poweron password in > >the BIOS. I'd > >like something that could be done in the Linux kernel, so as > >to apply to > >multiple platforms. > > Both Grub and Lilo have password options to prevent access. Downside is if > the machine has to reboot due to power issues someone will have to be at he > console. If the machine has bootable removable media then nothing will > prevent it however. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030919/03f5b287/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 19 12:50:24 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shannon B. Roddy) Date: Fri Sep 19 11:54:48 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Hrmm... profitable virus on atm card? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/19/143219.shtml?tid=185&tid=190&tid=201&tid=98&tid=99 This is just nuts!
