Bind ubuntu to hard drive.
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Mar 25 12:54:45 UTC 2007
Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Assuming the encryption is secure, how can an attacker boot the system?
>> If the encryption /isn't secure/ whatever startup scripts you use can
>> simply be removed, or the drive can be mounted (but not booted), and the
>> scripts are irrelevant.
>
> Right, thats why I was asking how the passphrase is being entered. If
> there is an automatic way I guess all this hassle is simply worthless
Well, yeah. If the passphrase is entered automatically, there's no
security at all, and no boot script could change that.
Matthew Flaschen
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