On Wed 17 Oct 2012 at 21:05:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
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.
Given the message from sulogin, this is highly likely. In fact, a
certainty. You are given a root shell so it is not surprising apt-get
works.
In such cases the root
account is locked and the user create during install is given sudo
powers.
The sudo package is installed and the user added to group sudo. If
"apt-get install gdm3" installed gd3 this is either a misobservetion
or the discovery of a massive security problem.