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?
Physical
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 XS hard
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
protocol? :)
...
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
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 the
