Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 July 2002 01.00, Lee Mavrogenis wrote:
> Marcel (and Ben as well),
>
> Thank you. I have embedded a couple of comments. Please note there was
> never
>
> any intent on my part to troll--so lets be clear about that.

Of course there was. It was a classic troll, and you even admitted it.

>
> With regard to security breaches:
> -- Yes, I believe I stated as much (in essense) in my post as follows --
>         "Granted, almost without exception any security scheme can be
>            breached....."
>
> As far as root access from a boot/rescue disk (again, this being in context
> to the original posted complaint) - within that strict context I am not
> aware of being able use a boot disk with W2k Server or Advanced Server  to
> acquire root (admin) permissions - unless you do a full install.  (I not
> talking about just being able to puruse the data on the disk I am talking
> about being able to serreptitiously act as the administrator -- by using a
> simple boot or rescue disk.) If you know how to do this I am certainly
> willing to listen.

You may be right, I don't know. You'd have to go to a windows discussion forum 
for that. BUT it's not because windows is in any way more secure, it looks 
like the guys in Redmond want to earn a few $$$ on what is in the *nix world 
(NB! ANY *nix dialect, including ALL versions of RedHat, ALL versions of 
*BSD) a routine procedure

http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm

//Anders