> We have a circular conversation (so I will stop answering after this > post).
So will I. > The security is about preventing the bad guys from reading/editing > the data. It is not about preventing a legitimate user to use/repair > her own system. Legitimate users have a password. > Given a password on both GRUB and the BIOS you make > it a little harder (need for a screwdriver) If an screwdriver is needed, then it is not software related, we can do nothing about it. But as per the software we distribute, we will make it as secure as possible. > In contrast, the > lambda user that apparently cannot log into her system (e.g., she > suddenly needs data on her old computer but she forgot her password) > may just abandon these data. You are still failing to realize that your suggestion is plainly "let anyone log in with full privileges without a password or even an user". > As far as I understood Trisquel targets > lambda users (individuals and small enterprises) too. Besides the > loss of the password, the recovery mode may be useful to the lambda > user when a partition is full, when the /home partition is corrupted, I have no idea of what a lambda user is, but you can do any fixing with the live cd, usually the same one used for installing the system. I'm not going to change this setting, and that is final. > BTW: I have the recovery lines on Taranis. Is it because it was > upgraded from the previous version? Yes.
