[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

Steve Holdoway steve at greengecko.co.nz
Fri Feb 15 10:35:50 NZDT 2008


On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:02:27 +1300
"Toby Collett" <tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz> wrote:

> surely this adds no security if you can simply change init to bash...
> 
Well yes, but it also (usually) implies physical access to the machine, so all bets are off anyway - unless as Jim suggests, the disks themselves are encrypted they can easily be read by stuffing them in another machine/booting off a live cd.

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