[Ilugc] Locked Root password, Debian 5 refuses to go into single user mode
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:30:37 +0530
On 07/11/2011 11:23 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
I always profess, not to change the "admin" philosophy of the
distribution. I suspect this idea came from Ubuntu wherein the
"first" user essentially is the root user except that s/he has to
prefix "sudo"
No relationship. Distributions haven't set a root password for fsck on
a emergency boot before Ubuntu even existed. It just makes it easier to
rescue the system. Distributions also don't set a grub password by
default. If you have physical access to a system and it doesn't have
disk encrypted, then it is game over for security. Everything else
is just a minor hiccup.
Rahul
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