F8devel - Review HAL policy about hiding partitions

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 07:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:14 -0700, Otto Rey wrote:
> >> Why we continue hiding partitions with HAL policy
> >> (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi)??
> > 
> > My policy has always been that if a user is able to boot a system with a
> > live-cd then all security is void.
> 
> Wouldn't filesystem encryption make this not quite true?

To a degree, yes, but I think I can count all the fedora users of
encrypted root on one hand... :-)

Richard.