Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 10/22/2009 07:19 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
Oh, over-zealous security nazis.[1] Easily defeated. Boot with the option
init=/bin/bash
It gets you a shell (bash) and, with any luck, initrd has found your
disks so you can run fsck on everything.
1 So described because, alone, the effort is so futile. Give me physical
access, I own the system. Unless you use encryption.
Encryption is not as full proof as you imagine.
http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/162-Security-is-a-multilayered-problem.html
Sounds like stoned...
Even so, it's quite a bit more difficult.
Use BIOS passwords, grub passwords and all anyone needs to do is pop the
disk into another computer,that's why I said "physical access."
I suppose that if I created a live Fedora disk with some attractive
features, there's a good chance some here would be foolish enough to
download it and run it, but I had in mind any computer, not just those
with gullible owners.
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Cheers
John
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