On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > > When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are: > sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell > root@localhost:~# > > At this point I'm allowed to do "apt-get install xyz" - no password > required. > > Comments, questions, suggestions????? I don't know for sure (never used this option), but this sounds like you left the root password blank during install. In such cases the root account is locked and the user create during install is given sudo powers. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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