From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 31 10:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13383 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13345 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05377; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:14:48 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34D36A17.44B3EDFC@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:14:47 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Cross" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot banner (securing FreeBSD) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Remove the floppy drive? - and secure the case (with a padlock)?... Seriously though, if you can't secure the room where the server is - your probably going to find it very hard to secure the server at all - this goes for Netware, NT, and every other server OS I've seen, if people can get physical access to the hardware - it's going to be tricky... There are a few companys that do metal enclosures for PC's, or you could put the whole lot in a locked cabinet or something? (with ventilation)... Regards, Karl Pielorz David E. Cross wrote: > > I have enabled the BIOS password on my server, and prevented booting to > the 'A:' drive, but it seems that all someone needs to do to bypass that > is create a FreeBSD floppy, and when the boot prompt comes up to do a > 'sd(0,a)/kernel'. Is there any way to prevent this? > > -- > David Cross > UNIX Systems Administrator > GE Corporate R&D