[Mageia-dev] Handling single user/rescue/failsafe mode

[David W. Hodgins]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:38:07 -0400, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> It seems that in mga1 single user mode just gave a shell without
> requiring root password.

In Mandriva and Mageia 1, it's controlled my the msec setting of ENABLE_SULOGIN.
When enabled by msec-gui, it does ask for the password in run level 1.
That should be the same in Mageia 2, in my opinion.

Regards, Dave Hodgins