From: David Nicol (nicold@umkc.edu)
Date: 02/20/02 

Message-ID: <3C74195A.F99027CB@umkc.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:43:20 -0600
From: David Nicol <nicold@umkc.edu>
Subject: Re: Security question

Brian Densmore wrote:
>
> Ok there is probably an easy answer to this. How do make a Linux
> filesystem from
> being local mounted and modified by someone using a floppy boot/root
> disk? Is it
> possible? I know this has one possible drawback, if you forget the
> password in, you're
> screwed.
>
> Just curious,
> Brian

You probably want a link to the "file system encryption how-to" but
I'll give you a more practical piece of advice:

Remove or at least disconnect the floppy drive, or even better,
fiddle the BIOS options so the hard drive is the only medium it
will boot off of. 

-- 
           David L Nicol, humble system administrator (816) 235 1187
              "Reconciliation work is both harder and less rewarding
                                  than invention." -- Mark S. Miller