This has saved my life! Though makes me wonder isn't it a security risk for on premise access?

@Linux || @Linuxxx what do you guys think?

@gitpush
That is why you have to encrypt your drives :)

@Linux So if encrypted this command has no effect? or user cannot overwrite password?

Sorry for noob questions I'm not a linux pro

@gitpush
You have to decrypt the drive with a password :)

@Linux and the drive only decrypts when user logs in right? or upon bootup? if it is a long answer, don't waste your time on a noob me, I will google it cuz that got my attention :D

Anyone with a bootstick can reset your root password too. Or they can take the computers hard drive and mount it on another pc as external drive and edit it there.
As long as it's not encrypted you can't prevent this. Except for the bootstick, there's a bios-option that prevents booting from external media.

@gitpush
Yeah you have to input it in grub when you boot. Except if you run a custom bios

@YouAreAPIRate @Linux thanks guys much appreciated 😀

Okay so if someone have access to your laptop for like a couple of days then most likely you won't be able to save anything from that laptop. He/she can get anything from it

As long as there's physical access, nothing's really secure.

@Meta encrypting will make the system inaccessible, still can’t understand why it’s not a standard

Was warning friend about leaving is laptop !surveilled and not encrypted,

F: Why would they steal it, anyway, they can’t use it without password

Me: *got live usb out, mounts the disks, shows him his files* what did you say?

F: 😶

@-vim- I did this but I put an autohotkey script in their startup folder lmao