On 2010-01-21 12:21:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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'. I'm not crazy about this change. A lot of people are probably used to using single user mode with forgotten root passwords, and documentation, etc. would need to be switched to use init=/bin/sh instead. Are there alternative simple fixes, like maybe running su --login or something like that? Thanks, Ricky
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