[Chester LUG] Security

[Roger Downing]

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 20:59:07 Roger Gibson wrote:
> What about the situation if (when) your system crashes, maybe a critical
> disc error, and you attempt recovery with a live CD or whatever.  Won't you
> need to have remembered the root password to be effective.  
I suppose that depends on the system. Built-in rescue modes sometimes require 
the root password, but this can always be avoided by booting with 
init=/bin/sh. With any CD one would just be able to mount the partitions with 
root access anyway.

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