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From: klimt@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Wolfgang Klimt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SU password
Date: 10 Jan 1995 07:57:43 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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scribe@netcom.com (The Cleaner) writes:
[...] Description of booting system from floppy deleted
1. This may be forbidden by setting a BIOS-password and selecting C-A
as boot-sequence in most modern BIOS versions.
2. You may also remove the harddisk of a system and mount it to
another one where you ARE root. Believe me: There is no security if
someone has physical access to the hardware without other people
watching him!
Greetings -- Wolfii
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