[Bug 267086] Re: Changing passwords without asking for the original one
This isn't a bug, it's working as designed. The fact is to perform these steps you need physical access to the machine in question. If you have physical access to a machine, then all bets are off, you've got full access to the system. You could remove the hard drive and put it in another machine and read the files, or in the case of a laptop, pick up the entire machine and walk away with it. You can mitigate this by encrypting the drive on your machine. This will make it impossible to do these steps without knowing the key used to encrypt the drive. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New = Invalid -- Changing passwords without asking for the original one https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 267086] Re: Changing passwords without asking for the original one
Thanks Alan, As someone who has been using Linux for a while I find this shocking though. I have a BIOS password running aswell, but if I compare it to some other OS's it doesn't look good. Why is this designed in this way? Is it all distro's thats like this? And don't you think this should be changed? Also, doesn't encryption reduce performance? -- Changing passwords without asking for the original one https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 267086] Re: Changing passwords without asking for the original one
If you have a BIOS password then this will stop the casual person from walking up to your PC and rebooting into single user mode - as would encryption. If you compare it to other OS's it's the same. If I am standing at your computer and you're running Windows, OSX or Linux, I (and you don't use encryption) then I can probably get access to all your data and change your password.. It's not unique to Linux. In some heavy use applications it's possible that encryption may degrade the performance of the system. However for most 'average' users they will not notice the difference. There are many articles online about disk encryption performance. -- Changing passwords without asking for the original one https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 267086] Re: Changing passwords without asking for the original one
Okay thanks man. Did a bit of searching and found it is posible in Windoze, just not that easy it seems. Thanks for clearing it up. -- Changing passwords without asking for the original one https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 267086] Re: Changing passwords without asking for the original one
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