Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Dotan Cohen writes: > My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a > password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a > password at the KDM logon screen? I don't know about you, but I occasionally leave my laptop unattended, and while the KDE scree

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/25 Paolo : > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +0200, Bogdan wrote: >> >> BIOS password can be reset after gaining access to the laptop's mainboard >> (or maybe even easier). > > yep, there are bios-pwd crackers on the 'net; but if HDD is also protected, > with it's own pwd, and bios just

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +0200, Bogdan wrote: > > BIOS password can be reset after gaining access to the laptop's mainboard (or > maybe even easier). yep, there are bios-pwd crackers on the 'net; but if HDD is also protected, with it's own pwd, and bios just asks for HDD pwd, things ar

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Seth S. Edwards
Paolo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:30:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a >> password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a >> password at the KDM logon screen? I am the only user of this laptop, >

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:30:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a > password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a > password at the KDM logon screen? I am the only user of this laptop, that'd mean you are

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Bogdan
> desktop. Are there other security implications of not having a KDM > screen with a password prompt? BIOS password can be reset after gaining access to the laptop's mainboard (or maybe even easier). However, if you are not using filesystem encryption then KDM (login) pass doesn't add much in te

Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a password at the KDM logon screen? I am the only user of this laptop, and it would be that much nicer if I would only have to enter the password _once_ to boo