F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at znmeb.net
Fri Dec 19 19:56:36 UTC 2014


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> And then the most likely user who will fall into this
> trap is the Fedora Workstation user, who also has media that can't
> boot in rescue mode (i.e. anaconda rescue mode).
>
> Still, short term I think it's better if the user is required to set a
> root password. I think we have more users who end up getting dropped
> to emergency shell with a reference to rdsosreport than users exposing
> themselves to vulnerability by having a root password set (vs not
> set).

Where is the documentation for a *Workstation end user* on what to do
if they get unceremoniously dumped into that emergency shell? I'm not
talking geeky command prompt stuff or filing bugzilla reports here,
but explicit steps to get back into a productive use case with no data
loss, assuming your hardware isn't broken or some rogue process hasn't
nuked a filesystem?


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