Changing Root Passwords without a Live CD

Tue Feb 9 22:47:16 UTC 2010

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:51:45PM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
> Yes, water seeks its own level but we still build dams.  I'm not talking
> about security against someone who has time to physically open up the
> machine.  I'm talking about making it difficult for someone with very
> limited physical access, like you might get in an airport or a coffee shop,
> to do anything nasty with it.

That's right.  You can slow them down, but you can't stop them.  Just have
to pick the right slowdowns.  Certainly a BIOS password, sane boot drive
settings in the BIOS, and a bootloader password is a great start.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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