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Re: Doing administrative work



Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Have you put a password on your bootloader (GRUB, etc) to restrict changing
> the boot parameters?
> 
> Otherwise, you can simply edit the boot parameters, and add something like
> "S init=/bin/bash" to the end to drop yourself right into a root shell on
> boot.

The same applies to the bios. Otherwise someone could just switch off
the machine, enter a knoppix-cd or boot over usb/ethernet etc. and reset
the root password via the rescue medium.

Johannes



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