Re: Linux login security approaches

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:47:22 +0100 (MET)


Mirian Crzig Lennox (mirian@xensei.com) wrote :

>You'll probably get a million responses to this but: if the PC's BIOS
>is password protected and set to not boot off of anything but the "C:"
>drive, this attack won't work.

Unless the attacker goes into BIOS , enters the backdoor password
and makes the floppy bootable.

Some "works-almost-always" passwords for Award BIOS'es :
"589589" , "AWARD_SW" ...

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