Perhaps encryption can help. Another peculiar scenario we came across was a self destruct mechanism, in addition to the normal precautions a self destruct routine was implemented which was invoked automagically destructing all useful information in the system.
- Bobinson K B On 1 July 2011 21:23, unni krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > That comes under something called physical security. > > You can do > > 1. Set bios password > > But still, its not secure. because, if the person can open the cabinet > and reset the CMOS, then no use > > 2. Force linux to ask single user password > > Still not secure. If the person can put a live cd and mount your hard > disk and edit the shadow file in the disk. > > Physical security is something that operating system cannot handle. > > bottom line > > There is nothing called 100% secure system. You can achieve that by > putting your system in a bank locker after shutting it down. Even then > I am not sure, if that bank locker is 100% secure ;-) > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:13 PM, aravind vijayan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please visit this link: > > http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-password-single-user-mode-and-grub > > > > it tells about resetting root and other user passwords then What is the > > scope of linux security ... > > Aravind vijayan > > Elayidathukunnel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > #[email protected] > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Unni > http://mutexes.org/ > http://twitter.com/webofunni > http://sourceforge.net/projects/imdbmoviefetche/ > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] >
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