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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Linus security/Non root access
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.020626.20221@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:06:26 GMT
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- Frank Pikelner (frank@cs.yorku.ca) wrote:
-
- : I'd like to find out if it is possible to say install several machines to run
- : Linux and allow the public to use them. The problem I'm trying to resolve is I
- : need the machines to have access to a floppy drive, but I do not want anyone
- : to be able to boot the machine using their own floppy, and maybe gain access as
- : root.
- :
- : One solution I can think of is getting a machine that has a password protected
- : BIOS, and allows the change in the boot order with the hard drive first. I would
- : love to hear other ideas, if any do exist.
-
- Hmmm...you could hack the loader to refuse to load the kernel from
- diskette - that might be easier than spending the $$$ to get a machine with
- a password protected BIOS. If someone booted MS-DOS from a diskette,
- it wouldn't do them any good, anyway, 'cause you can't read a linux
- partition from MS-DOS. Not yet, anyway... :)
-
- The loader code is in /usr/src/linux/boot/bootsect.S
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
-