Why does Linux Allow

Whil Hentzen linuxnews at hentzenwerke.com
Sat Dec 20 22:17:41 UTC 2003


I think what he's asking is "doesn't this give you the ability to crack
into a machine, since you can reset the root password and thus gain
access to the entire box?"

Whil

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:41, Oscar Rylin wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
> >Behalf Of jim tate
> >Sent: den 20 december 2003 22:35
> >To: fedora
> >Subject: Why does Linux Allow
> >
> >Why is it that Linux allows you to go into Linux Rescue mode
> >/mnt/sysimage and delete Root password?
> 
> 
> Because you might need to reset the root password sometime?
> 






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