On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:19:20AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:18:49 +0300 > Linas Žvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> dijo: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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. > > Happened to me the other day on a new Ubuntu Feisty install. I booted > to "recovery mode" and there I was, at a command line prompt as root. > No login required. If you are using grub you can edit the current boot line add in init=/bin/bash, this will by pass all the login/security stuff, do what you want to fix stuff and then reboot. > > As it turns out, this time it was a good thing. What I needed to fix > was a broken login caused by an overfull hard disk that was set up as > RAID 1. Live CDs couldn't grok the partitions and I was grasping at any > way I could figure out to get access so I could make some room on the > disk. But most of the time this is probably not a good thing. I wonder > if there is a way to change it. On the other hand, the Feisty machine > had the Desktop version of Feisty, not the Server version. Maybe the > server version won't do this. I'm less familiar with Etch, so I don't > know how much of this applies to Etch as well. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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