Re: [PATCH 10/10] add "rdshell" command line argument

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On Friday, July 03 2009, Harald Hoyer said:
> Only drop to an interactive shell if "rdshell" is specified on the
> command line. This prevents malicious users from gaining easy shell
> access to the host system (grub might be secured with a password).

I don't have a strong opinion about doing this vs not, but how could
they end up getting easy shell access?  If grub is secured with a
password, they can't change kernel arguments.  If they can change kernel
arguments, they can just add rdshell rather than change the root=
specifier.  

Jeremy
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