Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 08:06 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 10/08/16 19:02, Greg Woods wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Joachim Backes
> > <[e-mail] >
> > wrote:
> > If you add "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line, there is simply a root
> > shell started (with id=0), so no password is required
> >
> >
> > This doesn't change what I said about "vanilla system"; it requires the
> > installed system be explicitly modified.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I'm running a F24 system with the kernel 4.7.7-200.fc24.x86_64 (no 
> vanilla!), and adding "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line really boots 
> into a root shell!

Of course, but note that Bash is now process 1 and will not do many of
the things process 1 normally does, such as running all the init
scripts in /etc/init.d. Expect your system not to work normally.

poc