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- From: bergonz@keeper.sublink.org (Michele Bergonzoni)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linus security/Non root access
- Message-ID: <200@keeper.sublink.org>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 18:29:08 GMT
- References: <1409@yetti.UUCP> <1992Aug21.020626.20221@unislc.uucp> <1992Aug21.051117.17172@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <3000@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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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.
-
- Install 2 floppies in the machine, the first one (A:) is a bogus (possibly an
- old 360K), broken or locked one, and the second (B:) is functional.
- Maybe it is possible to mount only one floppy with the cables wrapped as a B:,
- but i'm not sure it works, maybe it depends on the bios.
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- Further investigations on this topic in more appropriate newsgroups.
- Ciao
- Bergonz
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