-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Running Linux Firewalls in a halted state (i.e. runlevel 0!)


>How is this any harder to hack that a properly secured box at any other
>runlevel?


Well, you can't get a shell on the box and you can't exploit buffer
overflows.  Even if someone knew your root password, or any other passwords
for the box they couldn't get into it without power-cycling it to get it
into a different runlevel, which they would need physical access to do.

Wayne



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