Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 05:23:46 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:03:48 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> Actually I appreciate when my system lets me log in early. That
> gives me a chance to more easily fix things if things go wrong.
>
> Since my root passwords are really ugly¹, I hate systemd's attitude
> of asking for the root password if something in the boot process
> goes wrong.

I’m sure that’s configurable, since everything else in systemd is.

I notice some systems now require the root password if you try to use
the “single” boot option. If that doesn’t work, there’s always
something like “init=/bin/bash” ...