[Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:35:09PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> On 05 Sep 2001 19:09:11 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > Are you sure? I booted with `linux single' and fixed my machine after
> > the fatal pam-modules fsckup. Then again, I may have been asked for a
> > password, but maybe it just didn't use pam...
> 
> It's true. For some reason, though, I have the idea it's only present in
> Woody upwards, and not Potato. Certainly, my testing machine won't let
> me boot to single witout a password. You'll get 'Enter root password for
> maintainence or ^D for normal startup'.

IIRC this is sulogin.  Check inittab for lines such as:

~~:1S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

(from my RH box - own setup).

I'm pretty sure that Potato has this as I set this up referenced from a
Debian set up.  Though of course I can easily be wrong.

I tend to set this up by default anyway as an added precaution even if
my distro I'm using doesn't out of the box.

Paul

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