[ubuntu-in] bug or what ?? logging into recovery mode without password

[Mehul Ved]

On 1/4/08, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> So is this a bug, and security hole or what. Does this need to be reported

It's what is called single user mode. This is how it is.
No one can exploit it unless they have physical access to the machine.
If you want to avoid people having physical access to the machine to
be unable to exploit this then set GRUB password.