From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803261204.46591.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803260907.30923.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com>
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem:
> > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that
> > nobody has physical access to them.
>
> What if you sell them or give them back (leased machines)? Do you
> erase your discs beforehand.
Depends on the content of the disks. If it is sensitive, I wipe them
(not just rm or mkfs). But then, this problem has never occurred to
me. I don't lease servers, nor do I sell them. Usually, my servers
aren't sellable by the time I can't use them any more. ;-)
Uwe
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 20:30 [gentoo-user] Recovering root password Grant
2008-03-24 20:34 ` Boris Fersing
2008-03-24 20:39 ` Dale
2008-03-24 20:49 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-24 20:40 ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-03-24 20:45 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-24 20:49 ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-03-25 7:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-24 21:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-24 23:52 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 0:14 ` Grant
2008-03-24 20:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 5:41 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-25 8:03 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-03-25 8:09 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 8:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 8:32 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 15:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 16:32 ` Grant
2008-03-25 17:04 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-25 17:26 ` Grant
2008-03-25 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-03-26 8:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-26 10:04 ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2008-03-25 17:14 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-25 17:55 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 19:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 9:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 12:08 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-03-25 14:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 17:53 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 18:02 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 20:06 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-26 7:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 19:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 8:30 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-25 17:23 ` Mick
2008-03-25 20:02 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-25 17:51 ` Steven Lembark
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