On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:45, Clemens von Musil wrote: > I booted from the RedHat CD and found myself loged in as root without > any given password and could repair the system.auth file. > My question are: > > - How is this possible? > - How works the described "CD-login" login? > - And ... is anyone, armed with a RedHat CD, able to open any Linux > system? If someone has physical access to your box, eventually they'll get in regardless of the OS. Your only help here would be encrypted data. Here is a reminder of this fact from the 'real world'. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html Dax Kelson Guru Labs
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