Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
Thomas Quinot <quinot@email.enst.fr> writes:
> One possible solution to the problem as we resent it is mere documentation.
> Do you find it an inacceptable burden for users to BE INFORMED that
> the default setup will unconditionnally allow booting from a floppy
> disk?
Not at all. Is not this already done in the docs for MBR? I recall
reading about it there...
... and yes, there it is, /usr/doc/mbr/README. I suppose we could add
a Help button to the boot disks. But this is hardly a "GRAVE SECURITY
HOLD".
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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