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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Subject: Re: HP 9000/370, no root password!
- In-Reply-To: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com's message of Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21: 09:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <TT.92Aug22194838@tarzan.jyu.fi>
- Originator: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi
- Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles)
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- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
- References: <1992Aug15.022529.7176@mccc.edu> <67870148@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:48:38 GMT
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- One question about this thread: Does physical access to a
- _diskless_ workstation form any serious security risk?
- Besides the danger of someone carrying the thing away, that is. :-)
-
- If it has a floppy drive and a local disk one can boot off the
- floppy and read the disk, but if there is no local file system,
- what other dangers are there? In particular, is there a way
- to get at the server's disks from it?
-
- Is there a safe way to allow the use a floppy drive in such a machine?
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- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
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