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SubjectRe: /dev/nvram on my Celebris
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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