26 Aug
2005
26 Aug
'05
14:49
Rich wrote:
james.knott@rogers.com wrote:
Yes. The first line of security, is physical security. Even without changing the password, it's easy to boot a rescue disk and access the files. The same applies to Windows etc. Even a password protected computer won't help, as a hard drive can easily be moved to another computer. The only way around this is to use encryption or prevent physical access to your computer.
I'm trying to figure out how to use a smart card, along with PAM-USB to secure access to my PC.
There were a couple of articles in Linux Journal recently, about using encrypted file systems. The second article descriped booting from a USB pen drive and having the entire hard drive encrypted.