On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 08:49 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> said: > > Further, this change of defaults complements the default for root > > account. The redesign of root setup screen in Fedora 35 makes it clear > > that root should be left locked. > > So, not directly related to the proposal, but jumping in here because it > goes with the above statement - the "root should be left locked" setup > is a problem that keeps single-user mode broken. I tried to follow the > Fedora (and other distros) default of root being a locked account, and > then found that it's a broken setup. > > I was changing some disk config and made a typo in /etc/fstab, so > filesystems wouldn't mount on boot. The boot process stopped and > prompted for the (non-existant) root password. The only way to proceed > at that point is to bypass the normal init (remember to load SELinux > policy manually or face a full relabel, which is irritating) and set a > root password. > > This IMHO should have been addressed before making "root account locked" > a default. At a minimum, you shouldn't be prompted for a password that > doesn't exist. It used to be possible to edit the sulogin options to > add --force (so that a locked root account bypassed the password > request), but then systemd removed that.
Boot with `systemd.debug-shell=1` and there will be a root console available on tty9 from very early in boot. Not sure if it's early enough for this specific scenario, but it is for a lot. You can also boot to the initramfs environment by booting with `rd.break`, from where you can fix up most problems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
