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somebody changes my password by entering recovery mode, how can I avoid that?

Asked by fartes

Is there any way to prevent unauthorized entry to recovery mode?

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juancarlospaco (juancarlospaco) said : 		#1

" Recovery mode " ask your password to change it, so this person know's your passwords.

you can edit :
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Make backup, take care, and read how to make it.

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fartes (crsdepr) said : 		#2

The person doesn't know my passwords the only thing he does is he changes it for the user. That is why I'm trying to protect entry to recovery mode or somewhere in recovery mkode.

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d1bro (d1bro) said : 		#3

grub has the ability to protect it's menu by password:

edit following to true inside of /boot/grub/menu.lst

# should grub lock the alternative boot options in the menu
lockalternative="false"

afterwards run grub-update

hope this does the trick.

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