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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utgpu!utstat!rafal
- From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
- Subject: Re: Linus security/Non root access
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.164855.2335@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1409@yetti.UUCP> <1992Aug21.020626.20221@unislc.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:48:55 GMT
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- >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... :)
- But you can delete it -;).
- >
- >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"
-
- Rafal
- --
- /|| Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
- ||_is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in
- || some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady
- ==== stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe.
-