Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > 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. > > My thoughts exactly. What are the less simple fixes that don't change this behaviour? -J -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
