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



On Friday 21 March 2014 11:06:03 Robin wrote:
> 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?

The default on Debian since I have been using it is that the root 
password is required for access via single user mode.  This may be 
affected by the fact that I always set a root password.

But physical access would also allow the use of a live cd. 

Lisi


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