Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 16 March 2014 22:42:17 Brian wrote:
> On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:50:22 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It is.
>                                                 I have always been
>
> > asked for the root password to log in to single user in Debian.
>
> You didn't set up a system which was without root password. But if
> you did what Andrei describes is what happens.

Ah!  Thanks.  I knew that there were more reasons why a root password 
is essential. ;-) 

Lisi