Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> >> > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you >> > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" >> >> That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root account is

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 01:18 +0700): > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: > > > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you > > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" > > That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 nov 11, 13:47:59, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even > asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for > password before granting root shell)? Hi Sthu, From reading the thread I understand

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root account is blocked. So, what's the strategy to protect systems in such

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:04:15 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > You mean "Busybox"? :-? >>> >>> I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. >> >>It should be printed out, something like: >> >>*** >>BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian x-x-x-

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-03 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-03 17:53 +0700): > >[..] A standard Debian config > >should not offer a passwordless root shell unless you explicitly ask > >for it, > > Oh, no! I didn't! :) > > Do You have an idea where to look for that? - I have no ideas, > absolutely. Just as a point

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-03 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Joel: >Recently had fun with Fedora, when it didn't like the way I specified >my HDs, it would drop me into the ctrl-d prompt, but I couldn't go >anywhere beyond that. Any key I pressed, including ctrl-d, would cycle >me another ctrl-d prompt. When I had the pr

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-03 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> Hmm. I thought everybody has the same OS behavior in such >> condition... And the problem here is only improper/default >> configuration. > >That could very well be, but I haven't had a boot problem in years >(well, except when trying out systemd). A st

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-02 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-02 15:17 +0700): > > >From here it's all guesswork. You'd need to provide a full bootlog up > >to the point where the shell is started to get any meaningful > >answers. > > Hmm. I thought everybody has the same OS behavior in such condition... > And the p

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >From here it's all guesswork. You'd need to provide a full bootlog up >to the point where the shell is started to get any meaningful answers. Hmm. I thought everybody has the same OS behavior in such condition... And the problem here is only improper/def

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >>>You mean "Busybox"? :-? >> >> I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. > >It should be printed out, something like: > >*** >BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian x-x-x-x) Built-in shell (xxx) >*** Oh, no. It's not my case. Nor I have

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-01 23:54 +0700): > > >fsck errors should drop into a sulogin shell, which asks for the > >password. The only way you could get a root shell is if your root > >device cannot be found. In that case, there is no way to ask for a > >password because there is n

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:49:00 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >>> asking for password... >> >>You mean "Busybox"? :-? > > I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >> asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for >> password before granting root shell)? >> > >Do you get a message 'root account locked, starting shell?' No. >

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >> asking for password... > >You mean "Busybox"? :-? I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. >> How I can change the behavior (to ask for password

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-28 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-28 13:47 +0700): > Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even > asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for > password before granting root shell)? > Do you get a message 'root account locked, starting shell

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:47:59 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even > asking for password... You mean "Busybox"? :-? > How I can change the behavior (to ask for password before granting root > shell)? If you refer to busybox, AFAIK is no

Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for password before granting root shell)? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su