Recovery mode. Login as root without password
Emilio Lopez
emiliollbb at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 12:49:22 UTC 2012
>> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
>> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?
>If someone has physical access to the machine, you've already lost.
Yes, but so easy & fast like selecting repair...
> Think so. Here's a snippet from a kickstart file that will change it so that
> it asks you for the password:
> # Require root password for single user mode
> sed -i 's|\=/sbin/sushell|\=/sbin/sulogin|' /etc/sysconfig/init
I will try that.
Thank you
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