Bug#56821: POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:10:17AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Thierry Laronde <thierry.laronde@polynum.com> writes:
>
> > > Do people also know that you have to padlock your computer's case
> > > shut? That you have to password-protect the BIOS? That you have to
> > > password-protect LILO? None of these have an obvious prompt, and on
> > > some computers may require physical case modifications.
> >
> > All that you have cited are *NOT* operating system issues. The BIOS is not
> > Debian, the hardware is not Debian, etc...
>
> Well, if LILO is not an OS issue, why is MBR?
>
> > What is asked for is, at least, *DOCUMENTATION*.
>
> And as numerous people, including myself, have pointed out, it already
> exists and explains the situation in a sufficient manner.
I believe the issue here, and I speak as one who has been bitten myself,
is that the mbr documentation is great, but that what is needed is
some indication that there is something called mbr, and that one
might wish to read the documentation about it, for ducumentation
that one does not know of and has no reason to look for is not
helpful. I suggest that the mbr documentation be installed as
part of the base install, and that the install process mention it.
>
> >
> > Let me remind... I have read that somewhere... Perhaps you can tell :
> >
> > "WE WON'T HIDE PROBLEMS"
>
> I'm sorry, is there a problem somehwere?
>
>
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