It needn't be permanent total destruction, just wiped enough to where you cannot log in & use the system. Idea is this will be a loaner linux system. At a certain date it needs to just self destruct & be useless untill it can be retrieved. It will get re-installed later anyways. I am thinking just wiping some vital directories via cron will do it. Taking out /boot should make for a nice init 6 induced coma. no? --- Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:04:01PM -0800, jg wrote: > > I want to have a Linux (RH 9) sytstem > automatically > > rendered usless at a certain date or time. > > Define useless. How recoverable do you want the > system to be? There > are few quick attacks you can do if you don't care > if the system can be > recovered. You can wipe the partition table, you > can wipe /boot, you > can scribble over random parts. > > I've had to do quick wipes of different systems at > the end of disaster > recovery tests. Our security people were satisfied > with a quick init of > the disk. Sure, give the disk to somebody who knows > what they're doing, > and they'll get the data back, but if the system > will end up with > somebody somewhat trustworthy, it's good enough. > > Simply deleting files will make them recoverable > with a simple undelete. > You may want to copy random garbage to the drive > after deleting files to > get them overwritten. > > There are DOS applications that will write erasure > patterns all over the > drive. You could boot into something like that - > heck, you've got > access to grub, so boot into a standalone erase > program, and poof, data > gone. Test it on your personal production system > first :-) > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
