Re: Disable Root Recovery

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On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:26 +0700, Feris Thia wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've heard that root access can be recovered if we forget the password
> or something causes authentication failed. How is that done ?

https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2005-October/msg00180.html

> And if so... I want it to be completely unrecoverable.. How can I do that ?

- use a grub password (to avoid the former)
- lock hardware, specially hard disks (deny physical access to disks)
- use a bios password (so no one boot from floppies or cds and mounts
your filesystem on another)

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