[PLUG] USB Linux?

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Wed Dec 8 03:26:06 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:56 +0000, techmage at aracnet.com wrote:
> Would be 
> interesting to see a boot partition on a USB flash drive so that a 
> server would need it to boot, sort of a security key. That way, if the 
> server went to reboot without it, it would just hang until the "key" was 
> put in.

Check out the root_plug module and patches to it by Fred Emmott.  I
don't think the system would be able to boot without the USB device
plugged in without whitelisting some applications.

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