If that indeed happens, nothing can protect your machine anymore! If someone gains root access, he has your machine.
- Manas Laha Kaushik Ghose wrote: > > 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 -- 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
