Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
On runlevel 2-5, the user is presented with a login screen. I
haven't
tested this in fedora for some months, but last I checked, runlevel 1
dropped the user directly in a root shell.
Other distros ask for the root password, but I prefer the Fedora way.
Rationale: if I can tell grub to boot in single-user mode, then I
can also edit the kernel command line to add "init=/bin/bash" and
skip the password prompt altogether.
If you want the local console to be secure, you'd need to set
a bios password, grub password, disable floppy/cdrom boot and
probably also lock the case so it can't be tampered.
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