Recovery mode. Login as root without password

Patrick Lists fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 16 09:31:23 UTC 2012


On 16-02-12 09:59, Emilio Lopez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without
> asking for password. Is this the expected behavior?


Think so. Here's a snippet from a kickstart file that will change it so 
that it asks you for the password:

# Require root password for single user mode
sed -i 's|\=/sbin/sushell|\=/sbin/sulogin|' /etc/sysconfig/init

Regards,
Patrick


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