F8devel - Review HAL policy about hiding partitions
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 08:28:03 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 07:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?
To a degree, yes, but I think I can count all the fedora users of
encrypted root on one hand... :-)
Richard.
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