[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode

Thu Apr 26 15:58:32 CEST 2012

Le 26/04/2012 15:21, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2012/4/26 Guillaume Rousse<guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
+>> Le 26/04/2012 14:22, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+>>>
+>>> What is the advantage to leave the barn door open? To make it easier
+>>> on those who can not remember their root password? Having to find out
+>>> how to overcome that small bar will not hurt them but teach them a
+>>> lesson.
+>>
+>> Having to type a password with a misconfigured keyboard is a pain. Really.
+>
+> Yes, that is surely a reasons to put away with all passwords because
+> they are all hard to type with a misconfigured keyboard.
+Your comparaison is unfair. Your usually boot in runlevel 1 
+exceptionnaly, because your machine is in bad shape, in order to repair 
+it. And as it is not the usual operating runlevel, you can't usually 
+ensure than than boot-time configuration is applied correctly.
+
+> I don't understand that it is not regarded as a contradiction to
+> recommend setting a root password at installation and at the same time
+> leaving the door wide open by default for reasons of convenience.
+Because usually people interested in security usually consider threat 
+classes before considering effective countermeasures. And securing 
+physical access is usually considered worthless.
+
+Now, that's just a default setting, this is perfectly subjective, and we 
+may argue for hours about the right thing to do...
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #394:
+
+Jupiter is aligned with Mars.
+