Hi. On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:49:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:06:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. > > > > You mean cases where `sudo zsh -l` is not an option? > > Up to now, there is exactly one case I am aware of when you'd wish > you had a root password: at boot, the root file system is deemed > too broken to mount, and you are told to fix it manually. > > Of course, there are ways around that, but all of them involve having > access to another living instance of an operating system,
Booting an existing system with init=/bin/sh does not require one to know a root password, and allows full access nevertheless. Of course, a console access is required, but the same can be said about any kind of a rescue media. > Does anyone know other cases where you'd wish you had a root password? I can think of nothing, short of broken third-party software that insists on executing "su -". Reco
