[plug] ubuntu

[Mark O'Shea]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:14 +0800, Timothy White wrote:

> So if we don't set a root password, what happens if the computer fails
> to boot and drops to single user mode? IIRC it prompts for root password
> to do admin work..
> 
If sulogin does not find a proper root password it just drops you into a
root shell without asking for a password.

This isn't as insecure as you might think as you need to be root to
execute it.  

-- 
Mark