Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

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Subject: Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
From: Robin <rc.rattusrattus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:06:03 +0000
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I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?

-- 
rob

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