booting with 'single' option

[sjoeboo]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> In order to rescue myself from a full /home dir I added 'single' to the 
> boot string. I'm a bit troubled by the fact that it let me in with 
> administrator privileges without asking for a password. Is that normal 
> behaviour?
> 
> duncan
> 

Thats exactly what single user mode does. you can disable it, or 
password protect your system via the bootloader. So yes, it is "normal", 
meaning thats teh way single user mode acts on every system i've ever 
touched.

mat