Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

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Subject: Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:50:22 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 201403161850.22273.lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20140316175202.GF11714@sid.nuvreauspam>
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On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> When you boot in Recovery mode you get a
> root shell without supplying any password.

Is Recovery mode not the same as single user?  I have always been 
asked for the root password to log in to single user in Debian.

I have just rebooted  and gone into single user mode to check that the 
latest upgrade hadn't changed anything.  I see that GRUB2 refers to 
it as Recovery mode.

Lisi

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