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There's a substantial difference between grub password protection, a feature which I've never seen anyone use in practice and the ubiquitous login prompt. The

There's a substantial difference between grub password protection, a feature which I've never seen anyone use in practice and the ubiquitous login prompt. The OP specifically said the login prompt was defeated by backspacing alone.

stevekemp 8y ago
Reminds me of the bug in Solaris where you could get root by essentially pressing entering a username and mashing the keyboard a bit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/muc.lists.bugtraq/5zYUw5Kt_UU/CaTUzTt6b10J https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/muc.lists.bugtraq/5zYU...