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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode</H1>
    <B>Guillaume Rousse</B> 
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    <I>Thu Apr 26 12:50:05 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 26/04/2012 12:12, Thierry Vignaud a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> On 26 April 2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt;  wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It seems that in mga1 single user mode just gave a shell without
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> requiring root password.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I'm not sure when this was added, but in the initscripts changelog, I
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> see it has come from the big mdvconf patch[1].
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Can anyone remember the reason for this (perhaps it was related to tcb
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> support?) and whether or not we should do the same thing in systemd
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> which currently (now that I've fixed it) uses whatever SINGLE says in
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> /etc/sysconfig/init.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> This has been like this forever...
</I>&gt;<i> At least for the past decade.
</I>&gt;<i> I think other distros do/did it too.
</I>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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