On Wed, May 5, 2010 20:57, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > I think most if not all machines have a hardware method to reset the > BIOS settings (jumper, dipswitch, etc.) At the very least simply > popping out the CMOS battery for a few seconds (while the machine is > off) will do it. > > Yes, securing the chassis is the only way around this, but then if your > chassis is secured properly, nobody is going to be able to boot off a CD > or USB drive anyway. Or remove your hot swappable disks and walk off > with them ;-)
And likewise, in any environment where subversion of the boot process is a concern meriting such lockdown, the network should be secured in such a fashion as to prevent rogue PXE boot vectors. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
