GRUB badly broken during upgrade

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was interested enough to try it on this laptop, and find you're
> right. Rescue mode can access root without a password, and my little
> tweak actually makes it harder rather than easier. I'll never give
> root a password again, because that remembered debacle was my only
> reason for doing it.

I wasn't trying to convince to change, only pointing out that
single-user mode works correctly in a default Ubuntu root-locked
setup!

BTW, I was sent this 2005 bug [1] off-list and there may be others.
It's not quite related to a default setup since root's unlocked and
them locked again but...

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/18937