I am astonished that this problem is reported so often and still
unattented. Of course physical access to a machine makes it easy for an
intruder to access and change your files. But still it should not be
made to easy. Otherwise why are there passwords anyway for people who
access the machine
Thanks for submitting this bug in efforts to help improve Ubuntu. This
is a feature not a bug. There are several reasons that this is available
to you in the grub menu. If you want to add a little more security you
can edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and comment out the recovery mode
(Which I'm
Is there any way to make this feature more transparent to new users?
If a user takes the same precautions securing an Ubuntu machine as they
would a Windows machine, they would completely miss this. I know I sure
did, and I work in IT.
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Recovery Mode allows full root access without a password
