Re: Speaking of SysRQ...

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:50:44 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

# It has been pretty much accepted in Commercial Industry that if you have
# physical access to a computer, there is no real security. A floppy disk

Amen. I learned that the absolute, irrevocable first rule of security was
physical security. Ignoring such things as default passwords, boot
parameters, and the ilk, a sufficiently motivated industrious person could
always grab the hard drive.

Anyway, wasn't there a patch posted about six months ago or so that
enabled passwords on SysRQ ?

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..nicholas j. leon..........mrnick.binary9.net.........nicholas@binary9.net..

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