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On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: |
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> This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> said, |
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: |
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> > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then |
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> > > give root another password. |
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> > |
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> > But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more |
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> > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in |
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> > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password |
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> > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your |
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> > back. |
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> > |
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> > I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being |
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> > strong.. :) |
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> > Liviu |
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> |
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> That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS |
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> encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over |
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> DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical access to |
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> my laptop, both GRUB and LiveCD approach would be useless... |
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I've thought about going for this . . . and then backpedaled once more. Every |
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time I had a fs problem I have managed to recover to this date without much |
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trouble. Vanilla primary and extended partitions seem to be straight forward |
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to access with any LiveCD. To be honest even when I had to frig about with |
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LVM I managed to recover without loss of data (more out of luck than skill I |
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suspect). The thought however, that I may lose my private key (never say |
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never), or lose a drive and need to access my data pronto from a back up |
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makes me somewhat nervous. Should I be more brave that this? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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