Linux Vs Windows in security

[cj]

David Vincent wrote:
> Cesar Augusto Suarez wrote:
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>> ...with the vista cd i can have root access to the system if i have physical access to it...
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> With physical access to any machine you can gain root access fairly 
> easily.  This does not matter if your OS is Unix, Linux, OSX, Windows, 
> or whatever.
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however, i remember some older versions of ubuntu were not like that. if 
i remember right, ubuntu 5.10 would leave the password in the log. the 
password was viewable to all who could read the language. I dont know if 
they fixed that or not (Hopefully they have) i dont view my logs that often

--cj