Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk writes: On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

On 2010-05-23 06:08 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages starting NFS (... etc) ...

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

Mitchell Laks wrote: I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages starting NFS (... etc) ... starting sessions setting console

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system: Solved!

Thank you all for your gracious help. You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and then running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode entry. restoring the correct default entry in /etc/default/grub and running upgrade-grub solved my

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system: Solved!

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: Thank you all for your gracious help. You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and then running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode entry. restoring

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue during reboot of the system. It would occur

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

Please do not take into accounts the two `|' which were unfortunately inserted at the beginning and at the end of the line of code. Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of weeks ago I was also getting it and then it went away as mysteriously as it came. --

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

It might be a security policy, for him, that changed without realizing it. But, for you, I don't know. I would be interested in knowing why such things happen. Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk writes: On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of weeks ago I was also getting it and then it

Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

Hi, I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages starting NFS (... etc) ... starting sessions setting console screen modes initilizing