Ubuntu security hole? (not super major, but wondering if it is an issue to report)

[Dick Davies]

On 09/05/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

> Anyway 'obstacles..'  what's wrong with just prompting for a username
> and password just like gdm does everytime you boot up? Presumably users
> remember those things. :)

When fsck has failed, you are pretty screwed. The auth system may need things
to be up (LDAP for example) that aren't going to be available.

IMO you'd be better off using a proper filesystem (that didn't need fsck) for
your machine, rather than worrying about this.

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