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Re: Root account blocked

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Root account blocked
Date 2015-11-19 15:30 +0100
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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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Root account blocked Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 20:10 +0100
  Re: Root account blocked Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 20:50 +0100
    Re: Root account blocked Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 00:20 +0100
      Re: Root account blocked Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-19 01:40 +0100
        Re: Root account blocked Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-11-19 14:40 +0100
          Re: Root account blocked Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-11-19 15:30 +0100
            Re: Root account blocked Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2015-11-19 18:30 +0100
          Re: Root account blocked Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2015-11-19 16:30 +0100
          Re: Root account blocked Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 09:50 +0100
            Re: Root account blocked Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 14:00 +0100
              Re: Root account blocked Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-11-21 12:10 +0100
          Re: Root account blocked Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 10:10 +0100

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