broken filesystem - give root password for maintenance

[Chanchao]

Clochard wrote:

> Isn't this a mjor design flaw in Ubuntu's choice to randomize/obfuscate
> the root password?  ext3 filesystems fsck every 30 reboots by default I
> think, and if a system ever encounters an error that requires a fsck,
> this most certainly isn't something that should need to be done.  

I've had that happen in Ubuntu, and the result is that it just dumps you 
into a root shell without requiring a password at all. :)

Convenient!  :)

Cheers,
Chanchao