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Re: to allow root logins or not?



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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

> If something happens during boot and you want to boot single, /home
> isn't mounted and only root is allowed to log in.  If there is no root
> user, how does this happen?

This one is a nasty surprise. You will be given a root prompt _without_
being asked for password. This looks more like a bug, rather than a
feature, to me.

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