Well, some Linux users.
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| jdixon Dec 16, 2015 9:38 AM EDT |
It appears that the author doesn't know that not every distribution defaults to using Grub. |
| penguinist Dec 16, 2015 10:24 AM EDT |
That's true, and also notice that this issue applies only to the case where physical access is available. Physical access has always meant access regardless of the OS running on that machine as long as the bios is set to permit booting from a live disk. I recently set up dual boot on 25 classroom systems completely without the need to log into an administrator account on the Windows side and had full access to the contents of the Windows file system while doing it. So Windows systems, Linux systems and Mac systems are all vulnerable whenever physical access is available. We should all remember to keep our systems physically secure, and if a system is physically secure then this grub2 issue is irrelevant. Aside from that, this is FOSS and the bug will be fixed immediately. You can be on your way, these are not the droids you're looking for... |
| jdixon Dec 16, 2015 4:08 PM EDT |
> Physical access has always meant access regardless of the OS running on that machine as long as the bios is set to permit booting from a live disk. And if you can enter the bios and change the settings, even then. As others have stated before, if you don't have physical security, you don't have security. |
| cybertao Dec 17, 2015 3:02 AM EDT |
By dropping into GRUB's command prompt, you can boot a variety of things from a variety of locations. On a system configured to only boot the GRUB device it is possible to boot something not already in the menu. Although, in all the years I've been using GRUB Legacy/2 (reading documentation, manual configuration, various OS installations, even compiling an EFI version to boot LFS), I never knew password protection was available. I've never encountered it in the wild. |
| mbaehrlxer Dec 19, 2015 4:22 AM EDT |
Quoting:this issue applies only to the case where physical access is availableand where grub is actually protected by a password. Quoting:I never knew password protection was available. I've never encountered it in the wild it's like worrying about breaking the lock on an open door. greetings, eMBee. |
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