Why does Linux Allow

[Florin Andrei]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:00, Chuck Mead wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:

> | Because anyone with physical access to the machine could disable the root
> | password via other ways.
> | You can disable booting from CD-ROM/floppy, protect your BIOS menu and
> | your bootloader with a password, though, to make it a bit more difficult.
> 
> As you know none of that would matter either to someone who knows what
> they're doing. In short... physical access trumps all.

It's not quite so either-black-or-white.
Sometimes it helps if you make it a bit more difficult. Sometimes it
doesn't. There's no universal recipe. It's all a matter of common sense
and using one's head.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/