Hi Recently i wanted to login into my Ubuntu 7.04 machine into CLI mode - not knowing how to do this from the GRUB menu i selected the recovery mode.
It ran through all the start up procedures very quickly and ended up and at a root prompt - so , just to try, using startx i went ahead to see if the GUI would work - it did. Showing all the drives mounted and usable But what *shocked* me was that there was no need for a password (or user name) to login. Was always comfortable that Ubuntu Linux was safe and no one would be able to login it without a password. Its one thing to enable a boo up password but this inherent flaw has me wondering - So is this a bug, and security hole or what. Does this need to be reported How can this be fixed. regards ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
