Felipe Bannwart Perina 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?
Thank you all in advance.
I was just going to tell you to read the scripts and see where sulogin's
used and change it to /bin/bash, but as Mark says, it really is an
administrative problem.
Ask those with power to make decisions whether this is the way it must be.
There are several ways around the password prompt, often booting with
"init=/bin/sh" is the easiest. Use of an alternative system, as John
suggests, is another.
However you do it, once you're root there are few restrictions on what
you can do, so you need an approved procedure to gain root access. If it
involves hours of downtime, someone in authority needs to choose that.
Auditors too.
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Cheers
John
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