Question

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:47:12 PDT 2004


Shawn Tayler wrote:

>I believe that you can add a "1" (number one) to the end of the kernel line in grub, edit the line from the grub prompt at boot time.  In run level 1 you can be root without the pa$$word.  Then you can pa$$wd it.
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Isn't this stuff a security risk? Seems pretty easy to get in to a linux 
system as root.



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