Asking for a password in Single User mode

[Phill Whiteside]

You can also enable GRUB to ask for a password [1]. Which would apply at
any boot level. Do please read the warnings!

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Passwords

On 1 February 2013 17:46, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013, 00:42:53 schrieb Ioannis Vranos:
> > OS: Lubuntu 12.10 32-bit.
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I searched the web, and could not find a solution to this. How can I
> > make the system ask for password, when booting in Single User mode?
>
> You need to set a password for the 'root' user. You can use a command line
> sudo passwd root
> for it. Once this is setup it should ask even in single user mode for this
> root password.
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