You can gain access to root even when you set a root password when friendly-recovery.
Steps to reproduce
1) Install Ubuntu Hardy RC1
2) Set a password for root
$ sudo passwd
3) Reboot into the recovery mode
4) Choose "Drop to root shell prompt"
In Gutsy (and all other prior Ubuntu releases) you had to enter the root-pw to get access to the root shell. Is this intentionally? If yes. Many documentations explain setting a password for root prevents access to the root account via the recovery mode. I think this change has to be doumented somewhere.
Binary package hint: friendly-recovery
You can gain access to root even when you set a root password when friendly-recovery.
Steps to reproduce
1) Install Ubuntu Hardy RC1
2) Set a password for root
$ sudo passwd
3) Reboot into the recovery mode
4) Choose "Drop to root shell prompt"
In Gutsy (and all other prior Ubuntu releases) you had to enter the root-pw to get access to the root shell. Is this intentionally? If yes. Many documentations explain setting a password for root prevents access to the root account via the recovery mode. I think this change has to be doumented somewhere.
ProblemType: Bug dules: nvidia ture: all usr/local/ sbin:/usr/ local/bin: /usr/sbin: /usr/bin: /sbin:/ bin:/usr/ games
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 23 13:37:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: friendly-recovery 0.1
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64