On 08/18/2012 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Hi,
I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user
mode have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I
needed it. As I usually set up my boxes root accounts with passwords
disabled, single-user mode needs to be without root password.
Today, after having upgraded from 6.3, I needed to enter single-user
mode at boot. And I was asked for a password at boot time. Is this
change intentional?
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
# rpm -qa | grep -i sl_password_for_singleuser | wc -l
0
# grep SINGLE /etc/sysconfig/init
SINGLE=/sbin/sushell
If this change was intentional, how can I go back to the old
behaviour? I double checked the behaviour with an old VM with SL6.1,
and that behaves as expected.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
Hi David,
The behavior shouldn't have changed. You've provided just about all the
relevant details in your email, so there isn't really anything I want to
ask for more information.
Can I have you try setting /etc/sysconfig/init => SINGLE to
/sbin/sulogin rebooting and setting it back to /sbin/sushell? Perhaps
something got 'stuck' wrong....
/sbin/sushell is a shell script, so can I have you verify its contents?
Mine looks like:
#!/bin/bash
[ -z "$SUSHELL" ] && SUSHELL=/bin/bash
exec $SUSHELL
Pat
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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer
