Question

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:47:13 PDT 2004


An unnamed Administration source, Ken Moffat, wrote:
% 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.
% 
% Isn't this stuff a security risk? Seems pretty easy to get in to a linux 
% system as root.

It is, or should be, well understood that physical access to a 
system means you own it. Or can.

Kurt
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