Root! Root! Root!

[Thom May]

* Lars Hallberg (lah at micropp.se) wrote :
> rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >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.
> > 
> >
> 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.

Ctrl-alt-del, grub, kernel command line of init=/bin/sh,
you have root with no password, regardless of whether your root user has a
password set or not.
-T