** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
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Repeatedly spamming the Escape or Ctrl+C keys has always given you a
root shell during boot
That's not true, actually. The problem is that hitting ESC kills fsck,
which mountall reacts like like the drive is failed. In the failed
drive case, it should run sulogin on a free tty. This is
Repeatedly spamming the Escape or Ctrl+C keys has always given you a
root shell during boot
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
There is still a bug here. As Johan stated, sulogin and getty should not
start on the same tty. When fsck is cancelled without an error, it
should not open a maintenance shell.
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: Won't Fix = Incomplete
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes
There's no way to fix that
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but why does this not give you a root
shell on other Linux distributions? At least, I could not make Gentoo or
OpenSUSE provide me with that particular back door.
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
I am a bit troubled by your hastiness to close this bug. Why is it
impossible to fix?
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
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Sysadmins who have taken precautions to slightly slow down attackers
with physical access could simply set a root password, in which case
sulogin requests it.
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
You
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell
on tty1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301
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** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35010080/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35010082/XsessionErrors.txt
** Attachment removed: XsessionErrors.txt
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