[aklug] Re: Security hole in installs of Ubuntu.

J D wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:02 AM, James Tweet<jamestweet@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> http://azerthoth.blogspot.com/search/label/Lessons%20Learned
>>
>
> Oh my gosh, single user mode... I think we've been able to do that
> that on unix systems since the 80's. I'm glad he finally caught up.
>
> There is an old axiom... if I have physical access, then I have control.
>
> You can make it more difficult to gain access but it is never impossible.
>
> -John
>
I caught hell for it at work, but in the server rooms I set up a
complicated series of rube-goldberg devices, booby traps, and such to
try to make sure that only people that have had *nix System
Administration in their blood for at least 3 generations and are in
extremely physically fit can access the systems directly.

So far, we've gone through 11 system administrators (they keep dying
trying to get in to reboot servers) and have simply started building new
datacenters to replace datacenters with dead servers. Turns out
wrongful death suits are expensive.

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Received on Wed Aug 19 08:27:01 2009