how can I override passwd?

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:42:52PM -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
> > As soon you have any kind of connection and/or physical situation, where
> > other people could come in touch with this system, I think strong
> > passwords and so on are necessary.
> If people have physical access to the box, no password is going to
> protect it.

That's not strictly true. Actually opening the box and setting jumpers or
swapping hardware is a higher bar than just sitting down and the system and
having access. It's much more likely to be noticed, for example --
especially if you have a security lock on the case and it actually involves,
y'know, hacksaws.

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