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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
When booting the system in recovery mode a recovery menu is shown which allows
the user to fall through to a shell with root access without having to log in.
This is a security risk in my opinion and should not be allowed.
I've heard say that if someone has physical access to a machine then access can
be gained by other means (grub?) but that is no excuse to enable easy root
access
through the recovery menu. In that case these 'other means' should be fixed as
well.
No respecting company will install Ubuntu if they knew people could get access
to
files without going through some kind of authorization procedure.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Status: New
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Recovery Menu should not allow root access without login.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195720
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