On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:47:38PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
Well, I understand the problem that this patch is addressing.
However, the ability to get root shell on runlevel 1 without
root password has always been a time saver when you forgot it
or couldn't contact the previous admin. It saved me from:
* booting from a livecd (assuming it had a cd drive)
* booting from PXE (assuming it had a PXE-capable eth)
* taking out the root drive and mounting it in a different
machine
One of those actions seems totally reasonable to require for a forgotten
root password.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Computing & Information Technology
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences