full-disclosure - Rooting Linux with a floppy

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Date: Fri Jul 15 10:29:25 2005
From: listuser at seifried.org (Kurt Seifried)
Subject: Rooting Linux with a floppy

Uhhh.. Where to start. This is old.

First off you often don't need a floppy/boot media for older systems since 
they tend to have insecure lilo/grub configurations. Second off all, this is 
really old news (yup, mentioned that already).

http://www.seifried.org/security/index.php/Linux_Physical_and_Console_Security

Nice spam links by the way.

-Kurt Seifried