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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 27/04/12 04:26 did gyre and gimble:
> 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.

It will be (I pushed a new systemd to solve a previous bug that casued
this not to work), although I'm not 100% certain the sulogin actually
works properly... sushell does but then it's just a wrapper around bash.

Col


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