On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:15:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:49:49AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Up to now, there is exactly one case I am aware of when you'd wish > > you had a root password: at boot, the root file system is deemed > > too broken to mount, and you are told to fix it manually. > > > > Of course, there are ways around that, but all of them involve having > > access to another living instance of an operating system, > > Booting an existing system with init=/bin/sh does not require one to > know a root password, and allows full access nevertheless. You don't really get that far if your root FS is unmountable. > Of course, a console access is required, but the same can be said about > any kind of a rescue media. definitely. > > Does anyone know other cases where you'd wish you had a root password? > > I can think of nothing, short of broken third-party software that > insists on executing "su -". Apart from, of course "I don't want sudo on my box", which, to me, looks like a perfectly valid reason (not that this is /my/ standpoint: I'm a happy sudo customer, but I know folks who do take this standpoint and have all my respect). Cheers - t
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