A way to mess up recovery mode logins! Comments please?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:19:54PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On ma, 2006-01-16 at 17:20 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Phillip Susi wrote:
> > > Because you locked the root account silly, so you can't login as
> > > root ( which is what recovery mode is all about ).
> > 
> > The root password is locked to start with, and yet recovery mode works
> > there. 
> 
> There's one big difference: passwd -l root does noet set roots shadow
> password entry back to *, which is what the patched sulogin locks for.
> So after setting a rootpassword and locking it again, you will have to
> do this manually.

In my previous mail, I gave a link to a sulogin upload that fixed this,
so that it will work following 'passwd -l root' too.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]