Security hole

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 18:21:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 11:49, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Paul,
>    Did you install LVM automatically from within
> Anaconda?  Because if you did, Slax, Knoppix, Kanotix
> or any other livecd out there can detect the
> partitions but not access them except the /boot
> partition where grub resides and you can make minor
> corrections. 

Don't think of this as a security improvement because
you can still access the whole system if you boot
the fedora install CD in rescue mode and it is only
a matter of time until the other distributions add
LVM support.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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