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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