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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If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
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