No root passwd available for booting into Single mode

[Ben Edwards]

douse this mean that someone can effectively log in with root access
without having to use a password?

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:50:59 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:57:07AM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> 
> > For some reason, I entered the second option down in the Grub menu and
> > started Ubuntu up in single user mode (the singel or 1 option passed to
> > the kernel), as usual I get asked to enter the 'Root' password, then I
> > stopped an realised there isn't one.
> >
> > I tried entering mine, just incase this mas been patched, nope!,
> > so I tried numerous options, and just ended pressing Contrl-D and
> > booting up as normal.
> >
> > Has anyone managed to get a workaround for this, without setting the
> > root password?
> 
> You aren't prompted for the root password in single-user mode unless one has
> been set.  If the root password is locked in the manner that it is by
> default, you are greeted with a root shell immediately.
> 
> My first guess would be that you set a root password at some point.
> 
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