Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 07:40:21AM +0000, Arno Schuring wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> Having a single root account for administration is also bad from an
> accountability viewpoint [...]
> So while you think it is crazy to have to use sudo on a single-user
> machine, I think it's similarly crazy to enable the root account on
> machines that are administered by multiple people [...]
This is all well and good until you find yourself in the situation
this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you
can only log in as root. Then you need your root password.
This has bitten me on one Ubuntu system (many moons ago, when they
started with their policy of "sudo everywhere". Since then, I
learnt: "sudo _mostly_ everywhere".
I now always have a root password I keep in a safe place for this
single situation (I haven't come up with another where I'd need
the root password) and use sudo in all other situations.
When the installer prods me in the direction of "not having a root
password", I smile and decline politely.
Meta-lesson for me: be especially careful when someone is pitching
an "absolute" and "clean" policy. It's most probably a version X.0
of something, awaiting some fixes for X.1 and forward.
regards
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