On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: > On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> 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. > > Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, > from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it > just gives you a root shell. Are you sure Debian still does this? Looking at the bug report which Sven Joachim filed (linked from his post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. -- 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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