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Re: building public system -how to disable ctr-alt-backspace etc



On Tue, 06 May 2003, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> Securing a box from users with local access is hard. With unsupervised
> access no box is secure (unless it has a good lock and cannot be
> removed), supervised access is of course better, but still
> problematic. Use a password in BIOS and don't allow booting from
> floppies.

Unfortunately, many bioses have "default" passwords that will work, even 
without opening the box.

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