Disable Root Recovery

Feris Thia feris.tia at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 01:57:59 UTC 2006


On 3/14/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:

> Ways to prevent it:
>  Require a password to boot into the single user mode.
Is it done in grub.conf  or lilo.conf ?

>  Disable boot from anything except the hard drive, and password
> protect the BIOS. Also physically protect the machine so that
> someone can not remove the hard drive, and place it in another
> machine.
>  Encrypt the hard drive on the machine.
>
How can I encrypt the hard drive using Fedora ?

> The thing is, if a person has physical access to the machine,
> and know what they are doing, they can get the information off
> of it sooner or later. All you can do is make it more work then
> the information is worth.
>
> Mikkel

Regards,

Feris
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