Re: [bitfolk] Please say I've got an option other than a reprovision

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:14:24AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: Interesting page, thanks for the link. Based on what I've seen on this list, it looks like most of your customers are experienced administrators who are well aware of the dangers of root. I don't believe there is anything special about Ubuntu that makes direct root access any more dangerous than on other distros; it's just that Ubuntu is the distro most often used by Linux newbies, so in that light their sudo-based approach makes sense. The thing which interests me most on that page is under the "Misconceptions" section: I won't be able to enter single-user mode! * The sulogin program in Ubuntu is patched to handle the default case of a locked root password This doesn't explain what happens if your root filesystem is hosed badly enough that it requires a manual fsck before it can be mounted read/write. In that case it always prompts for a root password, right? How are Ubuntu users expected to deal with that? (Incidentally I'd never thought about this before, but I'm guessing that mkinitrd mirrors /etc/shadow into the initrd to avoid a catch 22 here?)