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Re: a simple Q
Hi
I just want to comment that all the above answers don't give you any more
real security than what you have currently, because booting with
vmlinuz ... boot=/bin/bash
will completely ignore init. The answer with a lilo password is better,
althogh if someone gets physically near the PC, they can boot it with their
floppy (or, if you don't allow that and boot only from the HD, they can
simply take it out of the PC and connect it to their's).
Of course it doesn't harm to add simple (trivial?) measures against the
newbie cracker, but REAL security is achived only by encription, and
linux can do that - encript the root filesystem - although I didn't
try that myself.
didi