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[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode

+ Guillaume Rousse + guillomovitch at gmail.com +
+ Thu Apr 26 12:50:05 CEST 2012 +

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Le 26/04/2012 12:12, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> On 26 April 2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  wrote:
+>> It seems that in mga1 single user mode just gave a shell without
+>> requiring root password.
+>>
+>> I'm not sure when this was added, but in the initscripts changelog, I
+>> see it has come from the big mdvconf patch[1].
+>>
+>> Can anyone remember the reason for this (perhaps it was related to tcb
+>> support?) and whether or not we should do the same thing in systemd
+>> which currently (now that I've fixed it) uses whatever SINGLE says in
+>> /etc/sysconfig/init.
+>
+> This has been like this forever...
+> At least for the past decade.
+> I think other distros do/did it too.
+Some of them force the use of a password for single mode. Given the ease 
+of bypassing it through init=/bin/sh, unless the bootloader is also 
+protected, I'm a bit sceptic about the interest.
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