Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
Well, IMHO that makes it worse :-) Asking the user is the right
thingg, perhaps add some more info to the box or a help button. But
you should ask -- there may be other reasons not to overwrite the MBR.
-- John
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> So ... um.... what we've ended up doing, which I'm not sure is the
> right thing, is to inhibit the prompt entirely unless there's an
> error.
>
> I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do, or whether it'd be more
> right to simply disable floppy and advanced mode.
>
> Please advise. Please do not flame. Less than 3 posts on this topic
> per hour per person please. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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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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