2010/1/19 Raman.P <[email protected]> > > --- On Tue, 19/1/10, Varrun Ramani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yea, logging in single user mode is much easier. > > But this will not work in debian. Allowing single user root access > unprotected in grub is an invitation to security nightmare. > > Well, it really does not make much of a difference having a protected grub. If a person really wants to penetrate, To remove password of the grub, all he has to do is boot a live CD and remove the line containing the password in menu.lst file. To avoid this attack also, the filesystem would have to be encrypted which is a large overhead.
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