[RFC PATCH] use sulogin in single-user mode

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2010-01-21 12:21:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> By far, the simplest fix is to run something that starts a shell
> via a 'normal' login-ish mechanism. Hence, the attached patch
> that switches to sulogin for single user mode.
> 
> However, this changes behavior that has existed since the dawn
> of time in Red Hat/Fedora systems; with this change, single-user
> mode would now require the root password. This is both when
> booting with 'linux single/linux S', or going to runlevel 1
> with 'telinit 1'.
I'm not crazy about this change.  A lot of people are probably used to 
using single user mode with forgotten root passwords, and documentation, 
etc. would need to be switched to use init=/bin/sh instead.

Are there alternative simple fixes, like maybe running su --login or 
something like that?

Thanks,
Ricky
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