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friendly-recovery package

  1. Bug #220986
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Christoph Langner (chrissss) wrote :

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
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 23 13:37:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: friendly-recovery 0.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64