Hiya, but if some one hacks into your machine so that he can read a root only file, isn't the machine security compromised so far that encrypting the root password isn't going to help much ? -kg
On 9 Mar 2003, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 03:58, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > > Hi, > > I disagree with the point that lilo is worse than grub because of this. > > changing permissions on /etc/lilio.conf resolves this issue. > > RH8.0 at least comes with default root only rw permission for lilio.conf > Well wrong again. LILO stores the password in lilo.conf without any > encryption. GRUB, on the other hand allows MD5 encryption of the > password placed in grub.conf. Hence, even if grub.conf is readable, no > one can read the password. > > -kg > /Sumeet > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sumeet Madhukar Moghe | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > C/O Mr PK Das, Ghola C Block, | Phone:+ 91 - 33 - 2595 1420 > Opposite Checkpost, Sodepur, | + 91 - 33 - 2565 7575 > Calcutta 700 110 - INDIA | > Download PGP Pub Key http://www.geocities.com/flame_boy_81/pubkey.zip > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. > -- Aldo Leopold > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
