Re: Root account blocked
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft.
> Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by
> any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root
> access and do whatever one wants to do with the system as well as the data.
> One solution suggested to me was to set a BIOS password. That's good.
>
> I would like to know that is there any way once you forget your BIOS
> password.
Yes. There will be a jumper on the motherboard that you can
connect to cause the NVRAM where the BIOS password is stored
to forget itself completely.
In some machines, a battery is removed simultaneously or instead
of using the jumper.
-dsr-
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