A system administrator wants to prevent users with physical access to a server from booting into single-user mode to reset the root password. The server uses GRUB 2. Which configuration change should be made?

Disable the GRUB menu by setting GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.

Set a BIOS supervisor password only.

Change the root password to a complex value.

Set a GRUB 2 password and require authentication for editing menu entries.

LPIC-3 Security

Domain 2Objective 1

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A system administrator wants to prevent users with physical access to a server from booting into single-user mode to reset the root password. The server uses GRUB 2. Which configuration change should be made?

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