booting with 'single' option

[Lee Braiden]

On Monday 26 September 2005 16:47, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> In order to rescue myself from a full /home dir I added 'single' to the
> boot string. I'm a bit troubled by the fact that it let me in with
> administrator privileges without asking for a password. Is that normal
> behaviour?

If people can alter the computer's boot method, any OS security is screwed 
anyway.  The only common security measure you can rely on at that point is 
keypair encryption, *if* you take the keys away with you whenever you leave 
the machine, and *if* the people who want it aren't the type to just threaten 
you until they get it.

It's not typical behaviour on debian, no, it's an ubuntu thing.  But it 
probably doesn't matter much.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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