On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Bill Bogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a crazy implementation idea for adding pre-boot security code
I've discussed a few ideas similar to this with Wad -- he's the man to
talk to about hw. Definitely possible, and definitely too complex /
hard to get in
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> "Physical security is not our problem"... (at least yet).
>>
>> Still sure that you want the XS to be involved in the theft-deterrence
>> prot
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:46:17PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do the XS installation instructions offer any guidance on prohibiting
>> booting with init=/bin/bash, booting from external media, or simply
>> removing the
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do the XS installation instructions offer any guidance on prohibiting
> booting with init=/bin/bash, booting from external media, or simply
> removing the XS hard drive and manipulating it from a separate machine?
"Physica
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 2. If you want to disable root login via the system password, touch
>> /etc/xs-otp/disable-root-password. This file will eventually exist
>> by default, but for now this option should be used with care. It
>> *could* leave you with no way of logging into t
This is an implementation of the ideas described at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:OTP_root_passwords
There's an RPM at
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/testing/olpc/9/i386/xs-otp-0.4-1.xs9.noarch.rpm
and a repository at
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=3Dusers/dbagnall/xs-otp.git;a=3Dsummary
