[Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

Sun Jun 3 18:52:48 CEST 2012

2012/6/3 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+> '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.
+
+I knew there will be regressions in usage. No more easy change with sed! :)
+Or:
+I feel educated to use the GUIs!
+
+Thx
+
+-- 
+wobo
+