On 26 April 2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that in mga1 single user mode just gave a shell without > requiring root password. > > I'm not sure when this was added, but in the initscripts changelog, I > see it has come from the big mdvconf patch[1]. > > Can anyone remember the reason for this (perhaps it was related to tcb > support?) and whether or not we should do the same thing in systemd > which currently (now that I've fixed it) uses whatever SINGLE says in > /etc/sysconfig/init.
This has been like this forever... At least for the past decade. I think other distros do/did it too.
