On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Jul 2009 11:24:25 am Debayan Banerjee wrote: > > > coolness - so a disgruntled employee can lock out the owner. Is this > > > security? > > > is it a feature? It is a stupid flaw. It is axiomatic that root can > > > access everything - this is the only way a system can be secure. > > > > You could always encrypt a partition, right? > > and root cannot access it?
Not if the keys are with the encryptor. Besides the caveat pointed out by Siddhesh Poyarekar. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
