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Idea
#8679: Make recovery mode selection a little less obvious
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Written by aysiu the 16 May 08 at 16:56.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Right now, the boot menu has regular Ubuntu, recovery mode, and memtest. With just a simple Down arrow, someone can accidentally boot into recovery mode.
Perhaps we should make recovery mode a little less obvious. Is there some way to make a special key combination or something to access recovery mode? Mac OS X has you hold down Cmd-S during bootup to boot into single-user mode. I'm not sure if Grub can do this, but it'd be cool if it could.
The reasoning behind this is more user-friendliness. Users who aren't comfortable at the command prompt might accidentally end up there and not know what to do.
The added benefit is that those who need the illusion of better security would also stop complaining that the existence of recovery mode is a security problem.
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mihai007 wrote on the 16 May 08 at 22:43
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"The added benefit is that those who need the illusion of better security would also stop complaining that the existence of recovery mode is a security problem"
In my opinion there is nothing worse than having an illusion of security when in fact there isn't.
I think it would be better not to hide this menu but to ask for confirmation that this is the user's real intention.
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