Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

[Andrea Borgia <borgia@students.cs.unibo.it>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:


SPD>i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising.

It isn't: with physical access to your machine, anyone could boot of a
cd/floppy, mount your root partition, zero out your root password and be
your master from then on ;-)


SPD>most importantly, is there a way to prevent this?

You have (at least) these options:

1) remove Windows ;-)
2) use non-ext2,3 filesystems
3) use LVM instead of raw partitions for your filesystems


Have fun,
Andrea.

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