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Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]



At 10:33 AM 2/3/00 +0100, Ruud de Rooij wrote:
>Onno <Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl> writes:
>
>> To solve all the mbr problems at one: 
>> 
>> Make a hack that enables a sysadmin to put a password in mbr.
>>
>> DISCLAIMER: I don't know much about the mbr package so please 
>>             forgive me if my 'solution' is ignorant.
>
>The MBR needs to do all its work inside 448 bytes of machine code.
>There definitely is no space for password checking code in addition
>to the existing code that, no doubt, is already very tight.

Maybe a key-combo then?

>Well, if you're an assembler wizard, feel free to write it :-)

If it was for a C64 then no problemo ;-)

Regards,

Onno



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