Anyone with physical or console access can boot it with alternate init
arguments, avoiding any kind of authentication (extracting the harddrive
is not needed).  For system that require a high level of physical
security, various additional mechanisms of protection are recommended
like disk encryption, BIOS passwords, etc.

** Visibility changed to: Public

** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Kees Cook (keescook)
       Status: New => Invalid

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console gave me root without password
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216974
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