Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
> > Boot off the live CD, mount the image, etc.
> Sounds pretty insecure, but we have this issue already.
> > I guess we should add something pretty bulletproof to the docs.
> Agreed. My contact in Ubuntu (who no longer works there) told
> me that lots of folk we confused by the "no login" root. It wasn't
> really a problem, but it there was a major "what the ****" response.
>
> It will probably be easier for us as others have already been the
> pioneers.
>
> > Perhaps a "fix root access" utility?
A good idea would be to allow /sbin/sulogin to log you in as root if the
system does not have a "root role" enabled user (would this make sulogin huge?).
The other question would be how to find out "root role" enabled user if you
don't know him?
How about allowing root "loging" in single user mode by default?
J?rg
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