Re: Doing administrative work
- From: Dave Sherohman <esper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:36:57 -0600
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:49:30PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Have you put a password on your bootloader (GRUB, etc) to restrict changing
the boot parameters?
The same applies to the bios. Otherwise someone could just switch off
the machine, enter a knoppix-cd or boot over usb/ethernet etc. and reset
the root password via the rescue medium.
Once you've gotten that far, don't forget to consider putting the box
inside a cage, or at least using a case lock. Otherwise someone could
just pop it open and reset the BIOS (either with a jumper or just remove
the battery in most cases), then use that boot CD you were talking about.
As was said earlier in the thread, it's all a matter of risk
assessment...
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