On 07/11/2011 11:23 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > I always profess, not to change the "admin" philosophy of the > distribution. I suspect this idea came from Ubuntu wherein the > "first" user essentially is the root user except that s/he has to > prefix "sudo"
No relationship. Distributions haven't set a root password for fsck on a emergency boot before Ubuntu even existed. It just makes it easier to rescue the system. Distributions also don't set a grub password by default. If you have physical access to a system and it doesn't have disk encrypted, then it is game over for security. Everything else is just a minor hiccup. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
