Recovery mode. Login as root without password
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Feb 16 19:34:41 UTC 2012
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.
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