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Grant wrote: |
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> Thanks Mick. My host is big with multiple data centers of their own. |
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> They did exactly as I asked and I'm running on new RAM. There was a |
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> problem bringing my system back online and the cause was purported to |
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> be an unseated ethernet cable. I handed over my root password as I |
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> was requested to do, and then started to get paranoid. I suppose I |
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> shouldn't though because with physical access to my machine they |
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> pretty much have full access anyway, right? |
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> - Grant |
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Usually, physical access means they either have it or can get it pretty |
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quick. Boot a CD/DVD, mount the partitions, chroot in, change password |
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and reboot. Then, you don't have the password but they do. |
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My conspiracy hat on, if you can't trust them with the password, why do |
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they have your data? Just thinking. ;-) |
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This leaves out the encryption thing tho. That would change things. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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