System security and physical access.
Marc Adler wrote:
I have Explore2fs on the WinXP side, so I can access all parts of
the
Linux partition on my system. (Boy, that application makes a joke of
security, doesn't it?)
Not really. It makes obvious what is already known: if someone has
physical access to a machine, they have a huge amount of power. If
they want, they can even replace the hard drive, or take a byte-by-
byte copy and analyse it later.
Likewise, if they have suitable privileges on another OS on the same
machine [1], they can get raw access to any drive on the machine.
There are really only three answers to this:
* Don't let anyone untrusted have physical access to sensitive
computers.
* On multi-boot machines, you need to keep security tight for ALL OSes.
* Encrypt sensitive data, and ensure that the key is not stored on the
computer. This probably also implies having encrypted swap.
I'm sorry I can't help you with your main problem: I don't know
Partition Commander. It's possible that Partition Commander has made
unwarranted assumptions: it sees grub the package, and assumes you'll
want to use it to boot.
James.
[1] Barring virtualisation sotware and hardware, and the limits they
may apply.
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