Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread deloptes
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. > But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root > partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? yes, it is - more problematic is the password of the encrypted drive - you

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Leandro neto
I have the answer about that but my email is blocked and posts ereased Enviado via UOL Mail _ Assunto: Re: Emergency mode when root account locked De: amaca...@einval.com Enviado em: 12 de dezembro de 2020 10:16 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 20:51:26 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 12 dec 20, 22:53:41, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > > > > There was a

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 22:53:41, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on our

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 17:13:53 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On a "normal" as opposed to an Advanced/expert install, it prompts you to > give a password for a root user. > If you effectively tab through this, not setting a password at all, then you > get a normal user account. Hardly

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:35:58AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 8:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 8:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > > Is

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/12/20 3:35 PM, Marco Möller wrote: On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Marco Möller
On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even required to mount your disk from other

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? On 12/12/20 1:03 AM, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: Even if you plan to use sudo for 99%

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 13:15:41 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > >

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > > > > There

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 22:53 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on our

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: AND run sudo as root, for additional safety Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue on our systems. It appears to be default in debian 10, so most of us get it as

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 13:43:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 11:03 am, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: > > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > > > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, > > > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency > > > situations

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 11:03 am, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency situations where you need one. I've had the bitter taste of it when I had to salvage a

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-11 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC
Greg Wooledge writes: > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency > situations where you need one. I've had the bitter taste of it when I had to salvage a virtual machine for which I had lost

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 09:30:05 -0600 (CST) gru...@mailfence.com wrote: ... > i was a sys admin for hpux and linux systems for 25 years now retired > having a root password is along the same line as backups for your system > you spend time and money and pray you never have to use it > you set a root

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-08 Thread deloptes
Tixy wrote: > I never use hibernate and my disk is > encrypted hibernation works with encryption just fine. I have a problem though with hibernation+NFS

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 10:53 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 07 dec 20, 15:35:16, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root > > > password if you don't use it once in a while. > > >

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 15:35:16, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > [...] > > Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root > > password if you don't use it once in a while. > > For machines that are personal, single user machines, it just makes

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-07 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root > password if you don't use it once in a while. For machines that are personal, single user machines, it just makes sense to me to use the same password for root as the

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-07 Thread grumpy
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving > > you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can > > achieve that in Debian as well,

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-05 Thread Marco Möller
On 04.12.20 13:00, deandre wrote: Hi My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) I get the message “cannot open access to console, the root account is locked See sulogin(8) man for more details” and after I press Enter it continues to give me the same message, at this point

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:00:14PM +, deandre wrote: > > My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) > > Deepin is not Debian. It's a derivative. Your problems with Deepin > should be asked on a Deepin support list, because

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:00:14PM +, deandre wrote: > My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) Deepin is not Debian. It's a derivative. Your problems with Deepin should be asked on a Deepin support list, because the users there will have more knowledge about your

Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-04 Thread deandre
Hi My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) I get the message “cannot open access to console, the root account is locked See sulogin(8) man for more details” and after I press Enter it continues to give me the same message, at this point I’m not really sure what to do.