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- From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Hack.exe
- Message-ID: <Nov.23.14.42.29.1992.27565@dorm.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:42:30 GMT
- References: <jdsmith.50.722206331@novell.com> <7212@news.duke.edu> <1992Nov21.110530.22022@novell.com>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
-
- | In article <7212@news.duke.edu> low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low) writes:
- | >Ah, but as Eric J. Schwertfeger pointed out in his follow up posting,
- | >physicall access to a server is the determining factor. Even if the console
- | >is secured, I can kill the power (and probably some files) to bring the
- | >server down. Then all I need is a boot floppy with SERVER.EXE and my set
- | >password NLM on it and I can do my thing.
-
- | Isn't this just a characteristic of your hardware purchase? I mean,
- | all you're saying is that you can get control of your machine before
- | NetWare does. It's hard to fault NetWare for not doing something
- | before it gets control.
-
- Very true.
-
- | Just
- | require a password to change CMOS, and then without the password the
- | server should be unstoppable, shouldn't it?
-
- Not necessarilly. Just pop the PC's cover (and don't think that those
- silly little system unit locks will stop anyone), pull the CMOS battery
- and go get some coffee. In 15 minutes, the PC will forget all about
- the CMOS password.
-
- There are limits to how much physical protection you can reasonably
- provide for your server. Building a concrete block-house with it's
- own nuclear generating station and retina-scanning entry authenti-
- cation is impractical for most applications. 8^)
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