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Re: Password protecting grub

From Martin Smith <lists@rakupottery.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Password protecting grub
Date 2016-03-17 18:10 +0100
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On 17/03/2016 04:55, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar
> <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> wrote:
>
>> Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are
>> ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read
>> anywhere unless it is encrypted.
>> The am eager to know a particular way (however bad it may be) to
>> secure a system, which I have not known yet.
> A BIOS password and full disk encryption.
>
>
on all the older machines that I used to make if you had physical access
to the machine you could lose the bios password quite easily with a jumper
or a screwdriver, I dont know what the more modern motherboards are like
but surely they could also be similar...

-- 
Martin

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Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 12:40 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 13:10 +0100
    Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 13:20 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 13:30 +0100
        Re: Password protecting grub <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-16 13:30 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-16 15:30 +0100
    Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 17:30 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub arian <debian@semioptimal.net> - 2016-03-16 17:40 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 18:00 +0100
        Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 18:50 +0100
          Re: Password protecting grub Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 07:30 +0100
            Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 18:00 +0100
              Re: Password protecting grub Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 14:40 +0100
                Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-18 16:30 +0100
          Re: Password protecting grub Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-03-17 17:10 +0100
            Re: Password protecting grub Martin Smith <lists@rakupottery.org.uk> - 2016-03-17 18:10 +0100
              Re: Password protecting grub Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 18:40 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-03-17 17:10 +0100

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