Thinking about these recommendations for resetting your root password, it got me thinking of how to secure the most sacred of sacred accounts on your machine.
If it's so easy to reset to root password, how do you protect a machine that people have local access to (on a college campus or some such thing)?
mikeprincipito replied:The physical box is where security should start, and that is a good point to be brought up. Perhaps we should start a new thread on this, however my first recommendation would be password protecting the bios. Although we all know we can get around that too. So you might want a combination of bios password and having the computer under lock and key.
How does that saying go?
The most secure computer is 60 ft under ground in a lead box and unplugged from everything... and even thats not safe.
What does everyone else think about this?
