Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #431040
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 431040

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Luke (lukekuhn) wrote : The latest mountall version as of Oct 9

I've done more testing of this with forced fsck runs (generated by the utc clock bug-reconfigure tzdata to "utc", then BIOS clock to local time to avoid this), and the shell works, though the first login prompt refuses the root password, echoing it to the console(DANGEROUS in some environments) and you must try again.

There is still one serious problem: because the shell is external to mountall, fsck re-runs and errors out again if you try to skip with control-d! This could be especially bad if someone has not manually set a root password, assuming the system still demands one.

I am about to roll back the time again and see if it is even possible to control-d out of the shell with no root password at all.

If this is not fixed, Ubuntu Karmic should prompt for a root password by default on installation AND on upgrade, otherwise end users without rescue flash drives/disks could get seriously locked out.

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