On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 3/10/08, postid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't this a bit of a security breach? Anyone booting my laptop > > would have potential access to my files. Would a person using > > this shell have root privileges? > > You would only be running in init=/bin/sh temporarily, long enough to > fix the issue, then you'd boot normally. > > You might not even need to edit the line - doesn't your grub menu have > a line that basically tells it to go into single-user mode? If so, use > that, fix the issue, then reboot into normal multiuser mode. > > Or, you can do 'sudo telinit 1' and drop into the same single-user > mode on a running system, and then telinit 2 to get back to regular > mode.
Single-user mode on Debian still gives you mounted filesystems and you can't run fsck on a filesystem that is mounted rw. This is why people have invented LiveCDs for Linux. Before grub, it was the only way to get a command-line to a ro-mounted /. You still need a liveCD if you want to run badblocks (e2fsck -c -c) on the filesystem since it has to be totally unmounted. For your edification, look at the scripts that get run in /etc/rcS.d and rc1.d. Its a fairly complete system. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
