[plug] Root password

[Ben Jensz]

Adam Hewitt wrote:

>
> None of this prevents someone from taking the hard drive out and 
> putting it into another machine...And if the arguement here is that 
> "amateur's" wouldn't know how to do that, then you may as well just 
> not boot directly into X, because an amateur wont know what the hell 
> to do with a command prompt.
>
If someone unauthorized can get physical access to the machine, then 
you've lost already.  If you're storing highly sensitive information on 
a machine (i.e. information that is highly valuable), then you obviously 
need to take appropriate measures to physically secure the machine as 
well, not just from software based attacks.


/ Ben