Re: [Trisquel-users] How come Trisquel don't have recovery mode?

[magicbanana]

Well, first of all, that was not me who asked that. Then, I have already  
explained an obvious use of a recovery mode: a lonely lambda user of Trisquel  
(probably most of Trisquel's users), who forgot her password, can easily  
change it with Taranis. With Slaine, because of apparent impossibility to  
boot the system, and by lack of knowledge (she is not a IT professional), she  
may instead go through a re-installation (and potentially lose her data).  
There probably are other use cases for a recovery mode.

In the case of a company/university, there is a professional taking care of  
the system. If she wants real security on the system, she will either lock  
the computer or encrypt the disk. If she thinks none of the user will ever  
bother opening the computer box to access the system, she may only remove the  
recovery line from GRUB's menu, set a password on it and another one to edit  
the BIOS configuration (specifying that no extern disk would be able to  
boot). Contrary to the previous case, she is a professional. She can do that.