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Re: Linux partitions seen on win95



"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:

> JOO>> The reason I ask is that at that point you would lose the
> JOO>> security of your system, because Win 95 knows nothing about
> JOO>> Linux's security, so it would be as if someone was logged in
> JOO>> as root whenever they viewed the Linux filesystem from Win 95.
>
> So what? You just can use Norton Disk Editor or whatever to find the
> /etc/passwd on raw disk and wipe root password. I did it once when I was
> young and did not know about init=/bin/sh. If you have means to access a
> device circumventing OS mechanisms, you have Full Control (TM) on the
> device anyway, with or without driver.
>

I guess nothing beats physical security.  Your point is  well taken...james

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