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

[Dick Davies]

On 09/05/06, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:

> I have worked where most programmers had keyboard/mouse/monitor remote access
> but no physical access to the secure computer room.  Programmers could reboot
> a system when necessary but not use removable media to become root.

Mike, please read the thread.

We're talking about fsck dropping you to a rootprompt because it can't
mount the disk, not booting off removable media.

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