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Re: Root vulnerabilities in Linux

Philip, thanks for pointing this out.

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Philip Hands wrote:

> Another way of doing this, is with mbr.
> 
> Since the default Debian setup is to have mbr installed, which then invokes 
> lilo on the linux partition, this is something that Debian is vulnerable to.
> 
> So if mbr is installed, then booting from floppy is possible, even when the 
> BIOS is configured to boot from the hard disk.

Oh ick...  this is rotten.

Why does Debian default to doing this anyway?  I'd say that 99% of people
have no need for it, and those that do would certainly know that they need
it....

I don't like it one bit.

Now the question is: how do I get it off of these Debian machines?

John



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