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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: Password issues X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <EAJqEM.2Dq@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <337e914c.418331@news.ibm.net.il> <5lplob$kol@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <EAHtBs.pK@sphynx.fdn.fr> <slrn5o65to.78u.sec@matrix.42.org> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:35:10 GMT Lines: 43 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eerie.fr!cnusc.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41387 Stefan `Sec` Zehl (sec@matrix.42.org) wrote: : 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 %) Please E-mail me this well-known password so that I can try it on my i486-orchid-freebsd. /TIA/ : I guess a pc is never secure unless buried 10ft deep into the ground :) Wow ! Yet another frustrated PC user !!! Time to handcraft your own BIOS, isn't it ? 8-) Hey, Brian, what about a FreeBSD boot prom for this guy ? A nice gadget you can plug into your Ether's EPROM slot and which will offer the same functionality as Sun's boot prom, i.e. boot from disk, cd-rom, floppy, Ether or even tape !!! : CU, : Sec : -- : Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, : Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling : Error 0: No error Can't find /kernel. Aborting... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)