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chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Did the way to enter single user mode at boot time changed ?

Hello all :-)

Today I wanted to enter single user mode at boot time.
As usual I passed "1" to the kernel with grub at boot.

Things did not get the way I was used to a few months ago (I do not enter single mode every day ...) : the init started like a normal mode, checking filesystem and so ... Then it stopped before my default runlevel and asked for a root password.

This is one of the thing which changed : I did not had to enter a password for root in single mode before ! Since I disabled the root password I could not enter the single user mode ...

What I would expect is : just load the kernel, mount root read-only and log as root into a minimal shell without asking for a password. This is how it has always been until today !

Here is the kernel line used at boot :

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/62eec8ae-3c18-4225-b48b-57bc0497896f ro vga=773 1

Here is my /etc/inittab :

#
# /etc/inittab
#

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)    Single-user
#    2    Not used
#    3    Multi-user
#    4    Not used
#    5    X11
#    6    Reboot

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
#c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
#c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
#c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

Any clue ?
Thank you very much for your help !