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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!bos-muenchen.de!42.org!sec From: sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Password issues Date: 21 May 1997 17:41:44 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 25 Message-ID: <slrn5o65to.78u.sec@matrix.42.org> References: <337e914c.418331@news.ibm.net.il> <5lplob$kol@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <EAHtBs.pK@sphynx.fdn.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: matrix.42.org X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41359 In article <EAHtBs.pK@sphynx.fdn.fr>, Philippe Causse wrote: > Most decent PC/AT clones have a BIOS setup which allows you to boot from > drive "C:" before drive "A:". Furthermore, the setup can be password > protected (even the boot sequence can be password protected). > Therefore, and admitting that: > 1) You boot from C: before A:, > 2) You changed the boot code disable the fd(0,a) entry, > 3) FreeBSD is _the_ only O.S. on the system > 4) Your computer box has been secured (with a locker) > The system should be reasonably secured :-) Bad times for crackers! > > I don't know if Brian will agree but I'll be pretty confident in > such a system! unless you have a popular bios like "award" or "ami" which have default- passwords which let you access the bios setup anyway %) I guess a pc is never secure unless buried 10ft deep into the ground :) CU, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error