Boot it with init=/bin/sh rw Sent from my iPet 2
On Feb 4, 2013, at 23:29, "Peter Lawler" <debian-secur...@bleeter.id.au> wrote: > G'day, > Yes, I know I really should research this a bit more. I beg forgiveness, as > I've got medical appointments over the next few days and really genuinely > don't have time right now (for those who were at the Bluehackers BoF at > Linux.conf.au last week will hopefully understand). > > What I'd like to know is about the default root password and default > username/password pairs on the wheezy installer (for this is the version I'm > running as my 'introduction' to Debian). > > It would seem to me that accepting 'password' and 'rootpassword' for the root > user during the install phase we'd accept, albeit grudgingly, last century > and is somewhat unforgivable in the second decade of this one. Similarly, > that the default user can have the same password as the username seems very > poor. > > As I remarked to others on an IRC channel this morning, it's very handy for > short lived VM's but that's about the only functionality that I believe it's > excusable for. Is there a technical reason this 'ability' still exists? > > Regards, > > Peter Lawler. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51103490.1090...@bleeter.id.au > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/457a700e-7ce8-4ac1-b33f-b6c96d0cc...@piramide.nl
