Mail Lists wrote: > On 01/04/2009 11:24 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > >> By the way if your root partition was not encrypted then someone with >> physical access to your machine could boot into single user mode and get >> root access - hence encrypting the root partition is probably the only way >> to avoid that - unless someone knows a different way in? >> > > Just boot a CD, DVD or USB key I own the whole laptop - as a bad guy i > would prefer to boot my own OS anyway not yours. > I disagree with this. I know from experimenting that if I boot another Linux OS (regardless of media used) and then try to access the data on separate a LUKS encrypted device, I can't see that data without providing the passphrase. As a matter of fact you are prompted to supply the passphrase. If you boot a Microsoft Windows OS you can't see the data anyhow...Microsoft Windows doesn't recognize non-Microsoft filesystems such as ext3. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines