Re: highly secure live CD distro

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Date: 02/16/05

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    Peter Rehäußer wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > i'm unsure whether Knoppix will mount your hard disk by default.
    > If you hard disk is not mounted, nobody can access it.
    > Knoppix may mount the disk and store some configuration data, but
    only if
    > you want.
    >
    > Peter

    Guten Tag Peter,

    Knoppix does not mount HDs by default. It takes an explicit command to
    mount them, and another to mount them read/write (that in the GUI, in
    the CLI one command will, of course, do both of these things). But my
    concern is that Knoppix coming without firewall, somebody might be able
    to use one of the open ports to elevate priviledges by, say carshing
    some app with a buffer overflow, and manually mount r/w my drives.

    While I realize that distros cannot really provide security without
    somebody behind, a firewall blocking all ports except 80 or, better, a
    Knoppix remastering without the option of mounting disks would go a
    long why, would it not?

    Alternatively, how would somebody (unlike me) WITH all the requiered
    skills use a regular Knoppix and its apps to secure his/her HD? Could
    something simple like [rm /bin/mount] (or whatever the exact path for
    [mount] is in Knoppix) before establishing a connection do the trick
    (being a live-CD I would not have any problem loosing the mount command
    until my next reboot)?

    Cheers,

    TN

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