On Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 18:21, Bill Nottingham wrote: > We have an existing bug where if you're in single-user mode, and > SELinux is active, various commands don't print to the console. > The root of this is the single-user shell isn't running in the > right SELinux context, as there's nothing to distinguish this from > the 'normal' shells run during bootup. > > By far, the simplest fix is to run something that starts a shell > via a 'normal' login-ish mechanism. Hence, the attached patch > that switches to sulogin for single user mode. > > However, this changes behavior that has existed since the dawn > of time in Red Hat/Fedora systems; with this change, single-user > mode would now require the root password. This is both when > booting with 'linux single/linux S', or going to runlevel 1 > with 'telinit 1'. > > Comments? Well, I understand the problem that this patch is addressing. However, the ability to get root shell on runlevel 1 without root password has always been a time saver when you forgot it or couldn't contact the previous admin. It saved me from: * booting from a livecd (assuming it had a cd drive) * booting from PXE (assuming it had a PXE-capable eth) * taking out the root drive and mounting it in a different machine So yeah, I'm slightly opposed to this change. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
