On 6/5/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You password protect your grub? When I run into a password protected grub I just boot it from floppy or USB key or PXE boot over the network or if the BIOS itself is passworded I just pull the whole drive out.
Your manliness runneth over, Tracy.
> key-based auth for root? Not happening, even if it wasn't disallowed > by the DoD. That's a shame because it actually provides better security, as I noted above.
One wonders why DoD would specifically disallow it. If you could integrate a RSA hard token kind of setup with each box's root access, that seems like a much better idea than passwords alone. A lot of overhead, sure, but for a significant gain in security. One wonders why DoD would actually forbid such a setup. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
