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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: # It has been pretty much accepted in Commercial Industry that if you have # physical access to a computer, there is no real security. A floppy disk Amen. I learned that the absolute, irrevocable first rule of security was physical security. Ignoring such things as default passwords, boot parameters, and the ilk, a sufficiently motivated industrious person could always grab the hard drive. Anyway, wasn't there a patch posted about six months ago or so that enabled passwords on SysRQ ? ............................................................................. ..nicholas j. leon..........mrnick.binary9.net.........nicholas@binary9.net.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | |||||||||
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