Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 22:40:47 -0600 (CST) From: lrkn@anet-dfw.com To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot banner (securing FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199802020440.WAA12230@k5qwb.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980201160051.2916A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at "Feb 1, 98 04:05:18 pm"
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> On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > Remove the floppy drive? - and secure the case (with a padlock)?... > > I am not looking for that level of security; I am mostly just curious. > By the same token, I am hoping that there would be some way of preventing > a person from circumventing FreeBSDs security than just walking up to a > machine with 2 disks. Sun, with their NVRAM password accomplishes this; > you need to actually open the case (which can also be easily secured), and > without loosing functionality. The equivalent solution that I can see is > to remove the floppy drive, and that looses the functionality of the > floppy drive from within the program. At least take the keyboard when you leave. Most machines will boot without it if you disable the test in the bios. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 73, E-mail | lrkn@anet-dfw.com | | Lyn Kennedy webpage | http://webusers.anet-dfw.com/~lrkn/ | | K5QWB pony express = P.O. Box 5133, Ovilla, TX, USA 75154 | ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway---
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