Re: Newbie password problem(s)

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

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?????

  if you are already root and changing 
run levels i'm not sure it would take
you out of root so that makes sense to me.

  are you saying that you were not root
before changing run levels to single user
and it gives you these messages?

  and are you sure it is actually rebooting
instead of changing run levels?

  one is distinct from the other...

  if i am testing things out and need to
reboot i use:

# shutdown -r now

  to do a complete shut down before rebooting i use:

# shutdown -h now

which powers things off for my setup.


  songbird