On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Which Linux are you using? > > I tried on SLES, but could not get logged in as root without the password. > In "The Virt'n Cookbook" section 26.1.1 "Enter single user mode", it states: > "In single user mode, you are logged in as the root user." > > But this does not seem to be the case (who wrote that book? - somebody > better fix it :))
I have seen a similar prompt on RHEL 7 under systemd when trying to enter single user mode. a security matter, I assume I had to work around the matter by loop-mounting the image and blanking the hashed entry for root in /etc/shadow -- Russ herrold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
