[Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

Sun Jun 3 18:46:57 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 03/06/12 17:12 did gyre and gimble:
+> 2012/6/3 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 03/06/12 12:27 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> I notice that when, at the end of the installation of MGA2, I select the
+>>> level of security as HIGH, that I am permitted entry into the system in
+>>> Linux Single mode without a challenge password, which is a new, and IMHO
+>>> undesirable, behavior from previous versions.
+>>>
+>>> Is this a new feature, or have I stumbled upon a bug?
+>>>
+>>> The /etc/inittab does have ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin in it but I can get
+>>> in without a password... Must be something new in system D
+>>
+>> /etc/inittab is no longer used or read.
+>>
+>> For single user mode now-a-days we boot to rescue.target (this is done
+>> automatically if you just put a 1 at the end of the kernel command line
+>> to support "runlevel 1").
+> 
+> Ok, convinced.
+> But if /etc/inittab is not used any more, where do I change initial
+> runlevel not for one boot but for a while? With inittab it was easy to
+> change the default runlevel.
+
+The tools in drak* still let you configure this, so that's the "easy" way.
+
+For real men (and women), we just change the
+/etc/systemd/system/default.target symlink to point at whatever target
+we want to use by default.
+
+For ad-hoc changes you can pass systemd.unit=foo.target on the kernel
+command line or just append a runlevel number or the words "single" or
+"failsafe" as before.
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
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