Ubuntu security hole? (not super major, but wondering if it is an issue to report)

[Matthew R. Dempsky]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:03:55AM +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Or, if all that isn't available because that's ALSO corrupted or
> otherwise not readable then perhaps it should force the user to go back
> to (the secured) Grub and enter a password there before being allowed to
> boot into recovery mode?

I doubt the kernel developers will care enough to add a feature to allow 
the kernel to restart the bootloader.

However, I see nothing wrong with being able to configure the kernel not 
to drop to a shell in case of an error.  Then grub could be configured 
by default to boot a kernel configured as such; if an error occurs, 
reboot, enter your grub password to temporarily edit the kernel options, 
and get your root shell to fix things.