On Friday 09 December 2005 13:58, Paul Smith wrote: > I have noticed that from SLAX liveCD, one has total and free access to > the home partition of all Linux (Fedora) accounts in the hard-disk of > the computer. In this way, with a SLAX disk, everyone can spy all > accounts in the hard-disk. How can this be prevented? > Dear Paul Security is just a theory, it doesn't actually exists. When you talk about security, you are actually talking about a "sense of security". Each and every single "security" messure can be broken. The main factor is TIME. By adding more and more challenges to potential hackers, you are actually buying time. In your case, the sensible thing to do would be 1. Setup bios to only boot from hard drive 2. Password protect bios 3. Put a physical lock on the case so they can't open it. On another note, did you know that you don't even need a live cd? When you're at the grub screen, press the a key to append 'single' to the kernel and you'll be boot into single user mode where you are root without having to type a password. Solution to that: password protect grub. (see man grub) HTH Andy -- Currently not listening to amaroK Geek code: www.vlaamse-kern.com/geek Registered Linux User No 379093 If life was for sale, what would be its price? www.vlaamse-kern.com/sas/ for free php utilities --
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