On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:00, Chuck Mead wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > | Because anyone with physical access to the machine could disable the root > | password via other ways. > | You can disable booting from CD-ROM/floppy, protect your BIOS menu and > | your bootloader with a password, though, to make it a bit more difficult. > > As you know none of that would matter either to someone who knows what > they're doing. In short... physical access trumps all. It's not quite so either-black-or-white. Sometimes it helps if you make it a bit more difficult. Sometimes it doesn't. There's no universal recipe. It's all a matter of common sense and using one's head. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
