From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Je4YT-0002Hx-O8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E54ECE064E; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server1.nasreddine.com (server1.nasreddine.com [82.225.70.234]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF20E064E for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.2.5]) by server1.nasreddine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D2B1231DAD for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:30:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nasreddine.info Received: from server1.nasreddine.com ([192.168.2.5]) by localhost (cadmus-mail.nasreddine.info [192.168.2.5]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ap4A76gWgNtk for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phoenix.nasreddine.info (phoenix.nasreddine.info [192.168.1.3]) by server1.nasreddine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 203AA1231DAB for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:30:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:30:38 +0100 From: Wael Nasreddine To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password Message-ID: <20080325083038.GA19029@phoenix.nasreddine.info> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> <200803250741.46180.uwix@iway.na> <68b1e2610803250103o36ee7fe5n1aab9f6399e56a0f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610803250103o36ee7fe5n1aab9f6399e56a0f@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: Linux 2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 i686 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Mar 22 2008 15:41:28) X-PGP-Key: http://wael.nasreddine.com/files/Wael_Nasreddine.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: b75acb9b-73e1-423e-85e6-4f6df3d866f5 X-Archives-Hash: 09ea764d5f0e80cde9feeee1913a4a44 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic said, = On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then > > give root another password. > But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your > back. > I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being > strong.. :) > Liviu That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical access to my laptop, both GRUB and LiveCD approach would be useless... --=20 Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 /=C3=B6\ Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not oka= y to /=C3=B6\ lose. /=C3=B6\ /=C3=B6\ -- Homer Simpson /=C3=B6\ Dead Putting Society --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6LguVWU5RcjdGKIRAl0gAJ42OL//Rr003F4U69+/ByCoprjWYQCeKDBc /tmgW6tb2v3UVVZ14le7TaQ= =mlYt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list