| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:28:17 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:58:50PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > Heck, now that they have these new bootable firewire drives, any machine > that supports that is also wide open. Mac hardware users can talk more > about this. Can one put the macos on a iPod and use it to boot a mac? I > don't know. Don't think you can set the Apple partition types up properly on an iPod to be a boot device. But if it's an OF Mac (and all the new ones are), and if the iPod is recognized (on boot) in the OpenFirmware device tree, then yeah, sure. > Anyway, I appreciate your comment about how windows protocols mean that a > compromised client can compromise the server. I didn't know that, and I'm > not an expert on security. Can someone please post how to stop this? If I > have an NT box locked down as a fileserver only, in a closet, how do I > assure that this isn't broken into when someone knocks over the public > terminal clients? Not making it part of the same domain for logins seems like the obvious answer. (If you want a Unix machine to not fall down if the rest of the NIS domain falls down, you don't make it part of the NIS domain.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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