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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Even VAX/VMS (the minion of security), can be booted into SYSBOOT from > the console, set SYSUAFALT to 1 and continue. Then anyone can log in > as SYSTEM (like root) from the console. If there IS an alternate > password file, you just use N > 1. > > There are back-doors on every machine I know about so the person who has > physical possession can take control. Otherwise, you'd be hard-pressed to > sell used equipment. Very well put. I've used back doors to regain access to a piece of equipment on more than one occasion. As a matter of fact if anyone has the master password for a Cybernex RB-1260 smart terminal (and a termcap entry for it), I'd appreciate them forwarding it along. I've got one wide open on my desktop with the battery pulled out. When I put it all back together it STILL has a password I can't get past, and I have the users manual for the damned thing!! I've tried everything. If I can't get a password for this thing, I'm going to pull out the 3 EPROM's and browse them with my parallel port. > There is even a "general-purpose" password that will get you into > the ROM-BIOS Setup of most computers. This is so you don't have > to short out the battery if the password is lost. AWARD_SW on Award BIOS (All caps)... ;o) > If you need security, you put the machine in a locked room and > access it over the network or a serial link. That's what we do > with all our servers including name-servers, etc. Good idea. Escape from the confines of Microsoft's operating systems and push your PC to it's limits with LINUX - a real OS. http://www.redhat.com - 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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