On Friday, July 03 2009, Harald Hoyer said: > Only drop to an interactive shell if "rdshell" is specified on the > command line. This prevents malicious users from gaining easy shell > access to the host system (grub might be secured with a password).
I don't have a strong opinion about doing this vs not, but how could they end up getting easy shell access? If grub is secured with a password, they can't change kernel arguments. If they can change kernel arguments, they can just add rdshell rather than change the root= specifier. Jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
