Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:25:43 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Small security option |
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* John R Moser (jmoser5@student.ccbc.cc.md.us) wrote: > Why wasn't this done in the first place anyway? > > Some sysadmins like to disable the other boot devices and password-protect > the bios. Good, but if the person can pass init=, you're screwed. > > Here's a small patch that does a very simple thing: Disables "init=" and > using /bin/sh for init. That'll stop people from rooting the box from grub.
If you have this access, you already own the box. -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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