F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 18 22:16:13 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 11:31 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since systemd requires root password to use emergency shell, 
> shouldn't there be a generic password set for the livecd? Right now I
> can't boot single user mode for example, because a root password is 
> required. If I just control-D it continues onto graphical boot which 
> isn't what I want. I have found no work around for this.

init=/bin/bash

There was a fun bug with that if you had encrypted filesystems in F20, 
but I think it's fixed now.


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