Forgive my long-winded windup to this point here: ruben posted there: "In fact, Trisquel comes with that entry disabled to improve security. If you want -and most important, know how- you can still enter in grub edit mode and add the "single" parameter to boot in root mode. Since that is also a security threat, since Trisquel 4.0 the edit mode requires a password, which is random for every installation and lives in /target/etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD and only root can read it. So, it is wise that the system administrator read that password and note it down in case something goes wrong. Haut"I couldn't find "target", is 01_PASSWORD somewhere else now? I can't find it in "Issues". Magic Banana, who, by the way, reliably appears in all more recent "password posts", expresses some doubt about the utility of this feature then, for one because root users of bootdisks would still have access. I'm wondering if this continues to be the case, or was it removed as a security threat?
I hope this background isn't too trivial to bring up, but I recently,
stupidly, lost the password to an encrypted disk of a brand new installation
someone installed for me. I believe I must have made a typo in putting in a
password at first boot; I set it up late at night after dealing with insomnia
for a couple of nights. Bad idea. Being new to Trisquel, I looked up
"trisquel default password" just in case it wasn't actually me who made this
password (installing different linux distros is a kinda hobby of mine. Many,
maybe most have default passwords). The first result on Duckduckgo is
askubuntu.com and the second is https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/lost-password
which is a 2010 posting that is just about entirely in English, so... a
bizarre twist in the search. Anyone know why this search result would be
case?
- [Trisquel-users] /target/etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD from 2010 French f... cuvtixo
