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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Thanks & Regards
Varrun Ramani
Amrita University '10
Web: varrunr.wordpress.com
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