Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:14:47 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot banner (securing FreeBSD) Message-ID: <34D36A17.44B3EDFC@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980131115809.5729C-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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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
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