On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:18:49 +0300 Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > If something happens during boot and you want to boot single, /home > > isn't mounted and only root is allowed to log in. If there is no root > > user, how does this happen? > > This one is a nasty surprise. You will be given a root prompt _without_ > being asked for password. This looks more like a bug, rather than a > feature, to me. Happened to me the other day on a new Ubuntu Feisty install. I booted to "recovery mode" and there I was, at a command line prompt as root. No login required. As it turns out, this time it was a good thing. What I needed to fix was a broken login caused by an overfull hard disk that was set up as RAID 1. Live CDs couldn't grok the partitions and I was grasping at any way I could figure out to get access so I could make some room on the disk. But most of the time this is probably not a good thing. I wonder if there is a way to change it. On the other hand, the Feisty machine had the Desktop version of Feisty, not the Server version. Maybe the server version won't do this. I'm less familiar with Etch, so I don't know how much of this applies to Etch as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]