On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 08:17:26AM -0700, Dhruva Reddy wrote:
> I have a 2.0.33 kernel on my Toshiba laptop (I've just been too busy to
> build a 2.2.x kernel lately). Currently, I have to be logged in as root
> in order to suspend.
Why?
> I am a little concerned about the fact that anyone
> can power up my machine again and there's a root window.
If they had access to your machine then they would be able to boot off a
floppy with root access anyway. But some laptops let you set a BIOS
password which you have to type before the machine will wake up, so
you could check that. It might be the same as the power-on password.
imc
