On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
> to say:
> ..unless, of course, the machine's owner has disabled floppy boots..in which
> case, you have to open the thing up and reset the BIOS; if the
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
>say:
> ..unless, of course, the machine's owner has disabled floppy boots..in which
> case, you have to open the thing up and reset the BIOS; if the
Thor,
Disable booting from floppy in BIOS, password protect LILO, install
chassis intrusion detection system wired to gun turrets with 50mm heavy
machine guns...
...okay, I think I'm going a little overboard here... ;)
Regards,
Alex.
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Thor,
Disable booting from floppy in BIOS, password protect LILO, install
chassis intrusion detection system wired to gun turrets with 50mm heavy
machine guns...
...okay, I think I'm going a little overboard here... ;)
Regards,
Alex.
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> if you have physical access to the console and floppy drive you can always
> start with a boot + root floppy, mount the hard disk and modify the
> mounted /etc/passwd file ... this is an old trick, usefull whe
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> if you have physical access to the console and floppy drive you can always
> start with a boot + root floppy, mount the hard disk and modify the
> mounted /etc/passwd file ... this is an old trick, usefull whe
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Thor wrote:
> huh ? and you call this an xploit ?
>
> if you have physical access to the console and floppy drive you can always
> start with a boot + root floppy, mount the hard disk and modify the
> mounted /etc/passwd file
Hi,
> I'm obviously doing something wrong ...
>
> I've written to the maintainer of the autofs package according to the
> page summary listed under 'packages' from the website, and as I also saw
> somewhere else (dpkg -s listing?). I filed a bug report against autofs
> and marked it as release
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Thor wrote:
> huh ? and you call this an xploit ?
>
> if you have physical access to the console and floppy drive you can always
> start with a boot + root floppy, mount the hard disk and modify the
> mounted /etc/passwd fil
Hi,
> I'm obviously doing something wrong ...
>
> I've written to the maintainer of the autofs package according to the
> page summary listed under 'packages' from the website, and as I also saw
> somewhere else (dpkg -s listing?). I filed a bug report against autofs
> and marked it as release
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