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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode</H1>
<B>Guillaume Rousse</B>
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<I>Thu Apr 26 15:58:32 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 26/04/2012 15:21, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
><i> 2012/4/26 Guillaume Rousse<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>>:
</I>>><i> Le 26/04/2012 14:22, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> What is the advantage to leave the barn door open? To make it easier
</I>>>><i> on those who can not remember their root password? Having to find out
</I>>>><i> how to overcome that small bar will not hurt them but teach them a
</I>>>><i> lesson.
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</I>>><i> Having to type a password with a misconfigured keyboard is a pain. Really.
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</I>><i> Yes, that is surely a reasons to put away with all passwords because
</I>><i> they are all hard to type with a misconfigured keyboard.
</I>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> I don't understand that it is not regarded as a contradiction to
</I>><i> recommend setting a root password at installation and at the same time
</I>><i> leaving the door wide open by default for reasons of convenience.
</I>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...
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