Recovery mode. Login as root without password

[Reindl Harald]

Am 16.02.2012 20:34, schrieb Gordon Messmer:
> On 02/16/2012 12:59 AM, Emilio Lopez wrote:
>> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
>> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
> 
> Yes, the only way to secure your system against this is to encrypt your drives.  
> If you don't encrypt your drives,
> there will always be a way to modify the system without a password

not really

if you have grub-password set and boot from external media like
USB/DVD disabled you have practically no way without move the
hard-disk to another computer or remove BIOS battery

or have the also messed up "password"-option for GRUB
with the broken sitch in F16?

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