Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:31:37 +0800 | From | Ian McKellar <> | Subject | Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris |
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On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:14:27AM +0100, Johnny Tevessen wrote: > Quoting David Luyer (luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au): > > > However there's nothing > > to stop the attacker compiling a new kernel and rebooting into it unless you > > go to significant effort there too, > > There is. Don't use lilo. Have a little DOS partition. Don't include > DOS support in the kernel. Use a little DOS bootmenu to start Linux. > But default to start DOS there. This prevents from having someone > run lilo on a new kernel and do a shutdown -r.
What if they install lilo and overwrite the DOS bootloader?
What if they install mtools or another userspace msdos/fat tool?
If someone has root on your machine there is very little they can't do.
Ian
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