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

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