On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:53:29PM +0200, Earl wrote:
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> I have heard that physical possession of a Linux computer allows
> anyone to take over as root, etc. It seems to me that this is a huge
> security hole. Can I assume that this is still true in every distro?
>
> Is no one concerned about this problem? Is this an inherent weakness
> of Linux that can not be corrected?
Do you know of a computer system that cannot be rooted if they have physical
possession?
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Harmon Seaver
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