The maintainers consider it a feature!!! This "bug" has been reported earlier, e.g. #10662, more than three years ago.
I share the opinion of the reporters: it is a blatant security hole because nobody expects this from a linux system. There are more security holes like that when you can edit the boot command line. Maybe grub should be password protected by default? -- friendly-recovery drops to a root shell even when a root password is set https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220986 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
