>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Felipe Bannwart Perina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all! > > Whenever one of our linux system crashes during IPL, I get this message: > > fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). > Please repair manually and reboot. > The root file system is is already mounted read-write. > > Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this > maintanance mode. shutdown or reboot will not work. > > Give root password for login: > > Problem is, after our systems are running we don't have that password > anymore. This means I have to open a request that requires aproval so > someone can e-mail me that freaking password... That can take hours, and > as Murphy's Laws state, it usually happens on systems that can't be down > more than a few minutes. Seriously now, since we are running linux under > VMs, we already have a safe environment and really don't need this kind of > control. Is there any way I can disable this request for a root password > on linux?
If you don't have the root password for the system, then I would think you're not responsible for the system. Emailing root passwords around? You should be glad I'm not the auditor for your site. If your security policies dictate that you cannot have the root password for systems you are (theoretically) responsible for, then I doubt very much they're going to be willing to let you disable that prompt. Your neck, I suppose, if you modify /etc/init.d/boot.localfs. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
