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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!igor.rutgers.edu!farside.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@farside.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Security question Message-ID: <Dec.5.14.56.34.1993.4060@farside.rutgers.edu> Date: 5 Dec 93 19:56:35 GMT References: <2dodgn$s9s@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1993Dec4.065700.11472@news.csuohio.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes: > Basically, with the PC architecture you can't win. Even if you >could prevent single user booting somebody could boot off a floppy and >do whatever they like. This depends upon your system. There are systems with BIOS options that let you disable booting from the floppy, and install a password to prevent further BIOS-level access. I'm sure someone who can disassemble the machine can find a way around that, so it's probably not complete protection. But it might be good enough for some purposes.