Brian wrote:
On Wed 17 Oct 2012 at 21:05:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote:
When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are:
sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
root@localhost:~#
At this point I'm allowed to do "apt-get install xyz" - no password
required.
Comments, questions, suggestions?????
I don't know for sure (never used this option), but this sounds like you
left the root password blank during install.
Given the message from sulogin, this is highly likely. In fact, a
certainty. You are given a root shell so it is not surprising apt-get
works.
In such cases the root
account is locked and the user create during install is given sudo
powers.
The sudo package is installed and the user added to group sudo. If
"apt-get install gdm3" installed gd3 this is either a misobservetion
or the discovery of a massive security problem.
If you are referring to what I reported about lines
displayed when booting in rescue mode, they were copied
accurately. As I had no means to cut-n-paste between my test
machine and my e-mail machine I was copying it character by
character in my one finger hunt-n-peck typing mode.
Based on Andrei's comments , I did a clean install
(including starting from power off condition). I apparently
don't have password problems now. I've found another glitch
which is apparently repeatable. I've a couple more test I
want to run. I'll add one more variation to those an install
intentionally omitting a root password.
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