F8devel - Review HAL policy about hiding partitions

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 17 02:04:15 UTC 2007


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:14 -0700, Otto Rey wrote:
>> Why we continue hiding partitions with HAL policy
>> (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi)??
> 
> My policy has always been that if a user is able to boot a system with a
> live-cd then all security is void.

Wouldn't filesystem encryption make this not quite true?

Rahul




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