Am 16.02.2012 20:34, schrieb Gordon Messmer: > 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 not really if you have grub-password set and boot from external media like USB/DVD disabled you have practically no way without move the hard-disk to another computer or remove BIOS battery or have the also messed up "password"-option for GRUB with the broken sitch in F16?
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