Fedora safe/recovery mode

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Sun Mar 4 14:45:22 UTC 2007


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:00:05PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > tested this in fedora for some months, but last I checked, runlevel 1
> > dropped the user directly in a root shell.
> >
> > Runlevel 3 is at least as safe as runlevel 5 and could be used with no
> > security implications.
> 
> As long as Grub and the BIOS are not protected with a password by
> default, we do not need to discuss this....

Does grub have a "secure" flag you can put in a stanza to require grub 
to prompt for a password?  That would solve the security concern.




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