On Nov 12, 2007 2:15 PM, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:06 +0800, Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
[...]
For the simplest installations, GRUB could perhaps read /etc/shadow and
accept any user's password -- but that would be error-prone, open to
exploit, and
Nicolas Deschildre wrote the following on 11.11.2007 07:22
On 11/10/07, Thilo Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nicolas Deschildre wrote the following on 10.11.2007 07:06
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Thanks for the pointer.
But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone
to edit boot parameter
Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 14:06 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Nicolas
Deschildre:
But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone
to edit boot parameter and become root?
In addition to what was mentioned already: GRUB only knows about plain
us keyboards, while many/most
Nicolas Deschildre wrote the following on 10.11.2007 07:06
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Thanks for the pointer.
But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone
to edit boot parameter and become root?
because it´s as easy as to plugin a LiveCD and overcome that.
--
Thilo
key: 0x4A411E09
On 11/10/07, Thilo Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nicolas Deschildre wrote the following on 10.11.2007 07:06
-snip-
Thanks for the pointer.
But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone
to edit boot parameter and become root?
because it´s as easy as to plugin a
