Hello,
If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
Emilio.
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:59:38 +0100
Emilio Lopez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
>
> Emilio.
I believe it is.
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
Yes. You can password protect it by changing SINGLE to
'/sbin/sushell' in /etc/sysconfig/init.
But then, a det
On 16-02-12 09:59, Emilio Lopez wrote:
Hello,
If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
Think so. Here's a snippet from a kickstart file that will change it so
that it asks you for the password:
# Require root passw
>> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
>> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
>If someone has physical access to the machine, you've already lost.
Yes, but so easy & fast like selecting repair...
> Think so. Here's a snippet from a kickstart file that
On 02/16/2012 12:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
Yes, the only way to secure your system against this is to encrypt your
drives. If you don't encrypt your drives, there will always
Am 16.02.2012 20:34, schrieb Gordon Messmer:
> On 02/16/2012 12:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
>> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
>> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
>
> Yes, the only way to secure your system against this is to encrypt your
> dri
On 02/16/2012 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
if you have grub-password set and boot from external media like
USB/DVD disabled you have practically no way without move the
hard-disk to another computer or remove BIOS battery
Unless, of course, you've forgotten to set the BIOS password.
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Am 16.02.2012 20:48, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 02/16/2012 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> if you have grub-password set and boot from external media like
>> USB/DVD disabled you have practically no way without move the
>> hard-disk to another computer or remove BIOS battery
>
> Unless, of course,
On 02/16/2012 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
becasue it is mandatory and logical as pre-condition
to disallow booting from external media
You know that, I know that and, I'd hope, everybody on this list knows
that. I can assure you, however, from almost a decade's experience
doing tech suppo
On Thursday 16 February 2012 20:36:17 Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 16.02.2012 20:34, schrieb Gordon Messmer:
> > On 02/16/2012 12:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
> >> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
> >> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
> >
> > Yes, the
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14:09 -0800,
Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >becasue it is mandatory and logical as pre-condition
> >to disallow booting from external media
>
> You know that, I know that and, I'd hope, everybody on this list
> knows that. I can ass
Am 16.02.2012 22:22, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14:09 -0800,
> Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 02/16/2012 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> becasue it is mandatory and logical as pre-condition
>>> to disallow booting from external media
>>
>> You know that, I know that and, I
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 22:29:09 +0100,
Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> it prevents also you accessing your data if fedora
> does another time one "next big thing change" and
> after upgrade your encrypted disk is not mounted
>
> thanks, but after the last year a no-go
I actually test rawhide and br
Am 16.02.2012 22:33, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 22:29:09 +0100,
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> it prevents also you accessing your data if fedora
>> does another time one "next big thing change" and
>> after upgrade your encrypted disk is not mounted
>>
>> thanks, but aft
Ok, my curiosity is killing me. What is Recovery mode and how do you get
in to it?
The imprication is that it can be done from the grub menu but I don't
see such a choice displayed.
>
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On 17/02/12 15:22, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Ok, my curiosity is killing me. What is Recovery mode and how do you get
in to it?
type "single" on the kernel line
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On 16.02.2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I prefer to use encrypted disks. This protects against casual stuff and going
> much
> farther gets a lot harder when you are assuming people have unsupervised
> physical access to your machine.
If you have sensible data stored on your machine and somebod
>Ok, my curiosity is killing me. What is Recovery mode and how do you get
>in to it?
I have an entry in the grub menu for recovery mode. Probably you have
the options hidden.
Emilio.
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