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List:       axp-redhat
Subject:    Re: Security Comment
From:       Michal Jaegermann <michal () ellpspace ! math ! ualberta ! ca>
Date:       1997-05-31 18:29:45
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Andreas Beck wrote:
> 
> > Not to mention that most new motherboard BIOSes support booting from CDROM
> > as well.
> 
> Stop. Most of this is configureable or should be.
> 
> The thing with LILO/MILO "boot linux s" or "boot linux 1" can be inhibited by
> LILO configuration (i don't know for MILO yet) :

This will help you only, to a some degree, if you *really* can prevent
booting from a floppy.  Probably the only real way is to remove a
floppy drive.  For Intel based system you also cannot have any MS-DOS
partition as 'loadlin' can be dropped there.

  Michal

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