From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 8 15:41:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035F737B60B; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA66846; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:35:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Troy Arie Cobb Cc: "'Alex Popa'" , "Dan O'Connor" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securing the boot process (again?!?) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Jul 2000 00:35:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: Troy Arie Cobb's message of "Tue, 4 Jul 2000 06:48:12 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Troy Arie Cobb writes: > There are small locks you can buy which fit into a floppy drive > and secure it with a key. If your users don't need to put floppies > in on a regular basis (but perhaps YOU do occasionally), then > this can be a good choice to avoid booting the evil-floppy-kernel. RTFDL (Remove The Floppy Drive, Luke) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message