Re: F36 Change: Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 6:28 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > > Fedora defaults to locking the root account, which is needed by
> > > single-user mode. This Change uses `sulogin --force` so the password
> > > request is bypassed under this circumstance.
> >
> > I think this is a terrible idea. The problem is real, but this
> > solution addresses it in the wrong place. Essentially, you are proposing
> > a behaviour of "something is wrong, let's make everything open without
> > authentication", which is good for debugging and development, but not
> > acceptable for a real system.
> 
> Is it terrible enough that CoreOS should revert?
> https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/commit/eb74f2ea3e9b453902315539e4f327481162c4f8

I'd say that this makes coreos unsuitable as a general purpose image.
Maybe it's OK in limited circumstances where "physical" access is
only possible if you're the administrator on the host.

Zbyszek
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