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Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?



 Hi.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:55:42AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 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.

If the root filesystem is that broken, you don't need to login at all.
Just boot with init=/bin/sh kernel parameter.

Reco


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