On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:47:38PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > 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 One of those actions seems totally reasonable to require for a forgotten root password. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
