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Title: secure server internally
Post by: darren on October 18, 2002, 06:00:31 AM
Is there any way to protect the server data if it is stolen i.e disable lilo (esmith single) boot
and is there any other way to get in.
cheers darren
Title: Re: secure server internally
Post by: Rob Walker on October 18, 2002, 10:50:13 AM
you can stop someone from booting it up with a LILO password,
but that doesn't stop someone from putting the hard drive in
another machine and mounting it on the new host computer.

The only way that I know of to secure data against
physical theft is a crypto filesystem.  

On my laptop, my important files go into a crypto fs.

I use cfs.  It isn't an e-smith answer, but
"apt-get install cfs" did the trick for me on my laptop.  Then
I looked in /usr/share/doc/cfs/README, and thee was a pointer
to http://www.cryptography.org

rob
Title: Re: secure server internally
Post by: Ray on October 18, 2002, 03:03:35 PM
A big fat chain and a big padlock is a good idea too !!

Ray