Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Friday 04 August 2006 01:56 pm, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> In order to do anything with this knowledge the attacker would probably >> need to have root or physical access to the machine. And, for the vast, >> vast majority of cases, just running df -k / will also report this >> information. (In theory / might be mounted from somewhere other than >> the default boot settings for the prom, but I consider that case very >> very rare.) >> > > I agree, but that's why I wanted to hear what Casper or Darren thought. They > would know best about something like that. > > In general they can see some things by looking at the system, so maybe that > doesn't matter anyway, like a boot device. I didn't know if folks could have > a specific device manage boot, but another disk to actually boot the OS (GRUB > vs /boot), or if that was even sensitive information. > > It's a real shame that OBP is not used on PCs...because the BIOS situation on > x86 seems to be completely fubar. > >
Indeed it is. And since Vista appears to be the first Microsoft OS to support anything _besides_ BIOS (EFI in this case), I think we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future. Eventually once nobody cares about supporting anything older than Vista on their hardware, manufacturers might consider moving away from BIOS. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
