[mythtv-users] Forgot password; Choose door A, B or C?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
> That sounds too easy.
> If that was true, then every machine that one could physically get one's hands on would be a security risk.
> Is there some sort of a "catch" that I don't understand?

Anyone with physical access to a Linux machine can reset the root
password.  If you want to prevent physical access attacks, you need to
take more extreme measures which are not generally done.

Eric