> > the point of all this? Sometimes, you don't need to consider what the worst
> > possibility is; you just need to consider what will actually be going on
> > under real-world conditions. Sure, there's a half-dozen sysadmin friends
> > who come over on a regular basis who *could*, the next time I leave them
> > unattended in the kitchen for five minutes, stick a boot floppy in the
> > drive, smack Ctrl-Alt-Del twice, and quickly change my root password to
> > whatever they wanted.
i'm paranoid .. even though i live in the middle of no where and have
very few guests, all of my boxen have bios passwords set with a boot
sequence of <primary drive> first then other media. lilo is passworded
on windows partitions and restricted on linux partitions.
> And I have one (or three (the other being no smoking and no bowling
> (which covers Everything(tm)))) rule in my house: do not reboot any
> computers without told so!
>
> One guy - which I didn't know, he was a friend of someone I thought I
> could trust (well, I do, I think they just met the same night) - once
> was in a party at late night in our room. He was sitting in the living
> room with my bf and some friends. Suddenly he went to the computer,
> mumbeled something about playing and rebooted it! It had an uptime of
> about 300 days so I was pretty serious about not rebooting it (it had a
> load of 4 due to some zombie netscape procs that didn't die, but uptime
> was more important). When I heard he was rebooting I got FURIOUS!
dude ... i would've killed the !@#$%^.
abe
_______________________________________________
techtalk mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
