Re: boot parameters, init= and security issues

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 1 Jun 1996 21:51:08 +0100 (BST)


> The only flaw I can see in the protection scheme offered by LILO is
> that the password should be encrypted. So if somebody happens to have
> crypt written in as86, I'd be very interested in this ...

Nat has one written in bcc86 (TEA) which is being used for the Linux 8086
project. It should be in with all the ELKS code on linux.mit.edu

Alan