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