Security question

[David Nicol]

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.

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