Setting up a bios password and encrypting the grub can make your pc with linux os more secure.
On Jan 21, 12:09 am, Robin Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Robin Paul > > Permanent Address: > 1469, Poorvanchal Complex > J.N.U Campus > New Delhi - 110067 > Phone:011-26741386 > e-mail:[email protected] <e-mail%[email protected]> > Mobile No. - 9968047983 > > 360.gif > < 1KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
