[CoLoCo] (no subject)

[David L. Willson]

No box that is physically accessible to untrusted personnel is
reasonably secure.  To regain "reasonably secure" status, limit physical
access to your boxen.

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:18 -0600, phillip tribble wrote:
> How secure is linux when you can recover a password like this?
> 
> If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover
> using the following steps 
> 
> Turn your computer on.
> 
> Press ESC at the grub prompt.
> 
> Press e for edit.
> 
> Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e
> 
> Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
> 
> press enter, then press b to boot your system.
> 
> Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.
> 
> Type in passwd username
> 
> Set your password.
> 
> Type in reboot
>