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How is being able to break into any Linux machine through grub2 secure?
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Your intentional hack starts with this:
- When grub2 menu opens press ‘e’ to edit the linux start options
But you can password protect the e option as discussed here: How to add the GRUB password protection to the OS load process instead of when editing boot options
You can take the extra step of encrypting the grub password as discussed in the link. Indeed with perhaps 3% of the population (wild guess) using Linux / Ubuntu at home it’s a good idea for System Administrators to protect against the e function on production systems at work. I imagine if Ubuntu is used at work then 30 to 40% would be using it at home too and maybe 10% of those will be learning how to do the e on their home systems.
Thanks to your question they have just learned more. With the link above though, System Administrators have another task on their to-do list to protect production environments.