On 06/25/2015 at 09:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither >>> login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with >>> Ctrl-D because that just throws me back into emergency mode. >> >> Why don't you have the root password? Is this not your system, but >> just one you've been given for ordinary use? > > It is possible, in this Ubuntu-ised world, to install Debian without > a root password. Wouldn't that just mean that root has _no_ password? Or does it actually set up the system so that root is an account configured to not actually log in, at all? That would be a _crazy_ design; there might be situations where it could make sense, but they would _not_ be for the casual user! -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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