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Re: [SLE] Forgotten Root password ? ?
  • From: mcmxc@xxxxxxxxxxx (Nicholas)
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:55:24 +0300
  • Message-id: <3960C57C.A073CA68@xxxxxxxxxxx>



Samy Elashmawy wrote:

> If thats all it takes then why even use it in the first palace , not so
> secure , or am I missing something ?


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Ususally people don't have physical access to your machine, but if
you want to play it paranoid you can
1- change the boot order in bios to hd only
2- put a bios passwd
3- put a lilo passwd
4- set lilo timeout to 0
5- create an encrypted file system with yours 'sensitive data'

bye ;-)

N

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