Root! Root! Root!

[Lars Hallberg]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:55:10 +0100, Lars Hallberg <lah at micropp.se> wrote:
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>>albi at scii.nl wrote:
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>>>yes, ubuntu uses sudo be default, with a disabled root login
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>>Guess ubunti solves this somehow... But what realy happens when You have
>>to log in in singel user mode? A singel user mode without password is
>>*realy* no security feature. First fing I did on my ubunu was to run
>>passwd as root and set a root password
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>If a person has physical access to your computer and can reboot it,
>you have no security regardless of whether you have a root password or
>not. Booting from a floppy or cd it is trivial to access your system
>or change the root password.
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Yes.. But You have to have a bootable media. And it takes more time.

Just Ctrl-alt-del, singeluser boot, Do some evel, switch runlevel... 
It's *to* easy in a short ungarded moment.

/LaH