On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Tim wrote: >On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 13:33 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I always keep a "single" option in my grub.conf , eg >> >> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7) single >> root (hd1,1) >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 single ro >> root=/dev/VolGroup00/slash initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img >> >> Then if there is eg a problem in /etc/fstab >> I can just boot in single mode and change it. >> >> I've never seen this suggested before, >> but it seems quite a good idea to me? > >If you don't mind the security risk of anybody being able to boot that >way without asking for a password, fine. You can always insert "single" >by hand through the grub shell, to any grub entry, if needed. > >For myself, I password protect modifying boot and grub parameters, and >don't have any options for booting anything other than the main hard >drive without a password. So anybody wanting to mess me around is >forced to open the box and remove/add a drive, or reset the BIOS. Of >course that's do-able, but hard to do quickly, and without getting seen. Well, this IS my home, and anybody wanting in had better have a search warrant or they will be facing at least as much firepower as they are carrying, and probably a hell of a lot more. Here, I still take the first 10 Amendments to our constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, at its face value. Read them sometime, its very educational. Being that paranoid in the much more public corporate environment however, does have a certain 'feel good' about it though, and is probably a good deal. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money. -- Sen. Everett Dirksen, on the U.S. defense budget
