Hi On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Ismael Bouya <ismael.bouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have always learnt that it was good practice (to use sudo instead of root > su and), when we use sudo, to completely disable root login (by disabling > his password). In fact disabling root password does not completely prevent a user from logging as root. There are other ways to authenticate e.g. SSH keys (it assumes sshd.config did not disable root login). The "correct" way to disable root completely is to make it expired "usermod --expiredate DATE_IN_PAST root". I tried it on my machine and found that pacman is broken. I believe it uses "su" before running install scripts. > > However when we need to boot into "fallback mode", initramfs asks for root > password! Is there a standard/automated way to ask/permit another user via > initramfs in Archlinux? > > If not, how do you deal with that usually? > > > Thanks in advance for your response! > > Regards, > -- > Ismael
