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.