RE: [Bug 431040] The latest mountall version as of Oct 9

2009-10-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:30 +, Luke wrote: > Issues are as follows: > > 1: if someone has not set a root password but is asked for a root > password for the shell, they cannot fix the filesystem and can only try > to skip it with ^d. Unless the shell does not ask for a root password > when no

RE: [Bug 431040] The latest mountall version as of Oct 9

2009-10-10 Thread Luke
10:56:38 + > From: sc...@canonical.com > To: lukek...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Bug 431040] The latest mountall version as of Oct 9 > > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 03:03 +, Luke wrote: > > > There is still one serious problem: because the shell is external to > >

Re: [Bug 431040] The latest mountall version as of Oct 9

2009-10-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 03:03 +, Luke wrote: > There is still one serious problem: because the shell is external to > mountall, fsck re-runs and errors out again if you try to skip with > control-d! This could be especially bad if someone has not manually set > a root password, assuming the sys