Re: Breaking in from the monitor at the console

[mjb () doc ic ac uk (Matthew Jude Brown)]

In article <9405310658.AA01182 () siltrain demon co uk>, George Hodson <george () siltrain demon co uk> writes:

> PS watch out using "#eeprom secure=full", if you loose the password you can
> have a lot of fun trying to recover! (you need a password to even boot!)
> Mind you Sun will happily supply you with a new mother board (who carries
> NVRAM's?).

It's not as bad as that -- there's a way to reset the eeprom.  (this
is bad in other ways, too, but then anyone who can unscrew your
machine case and use tools on the inside can probably break into your
system in lots of other ways, so ...)

-Matt

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