Most people in this group wud simply hate reading this, but this is true. No matter how u set ur permissions in ur desktop linux they can be broken easily with the help of a live CD.
I used Hardy live CD, logged in to my own comp. using it which
has got Hardy 8.04 in hdisk. the CD boots into Live session user which does
not give u access to the root folder of the hdisk Linux and other users. U
can bypass it easily, go to the Administration->user and groups, click root
and then on properties tab and type a desired password. Go to
administratore->Login Window , click on security tab and enable login of
administrator thru GDM. Then go to Quit-> Switch user. Type "root" as
username and then d pswd u had set earlier, u log in as root in a foreign
computer. Then u can access any part of the host computer at will. Thus I
use Linux to break Linux's security. Linus Torvalds has some serious
thinking to do!!!!!!![?].
Ofcourse there r obvious ways to stop a live CD. 1st set a password in the
BIOS , second is to encrypt ur hdisk. But, while the first is not a merit of
Linux the second has its own problems. If the hdisk Linux crashes due to
some reason it becomes very difficult to retrieve the data in the hdrive
using a live CD
Dont think I am anti-Linux. This is just an experiment which I carried out.
Ubuntu is the best operating system I have ever used. And I will always be
interested in it. But this is a problem which needs to be addressed
therefore I have raised it.
Do try this experiment with ur own distro and let me kno.
Robin
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