Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system: Solved!

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Thank you all for your gracious help. > > You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and > then > running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode > entry. > > restoring the correct d

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system: Solved!

Thank you all for your gracious help. You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and then running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode entry. restoring the correct default entry in /etc/default/grub and running upgrade-grub solved my pr

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

> Mitchell Laks wrote: >> I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message >> "Give root password for maintainance >> or type Control_D to continue " >> during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages >> starting NFS (... etc) >> ... >> starting sessions >>

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

On 2010-05-23 06:08 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to continue " > > during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages > > starting NFS (... etc) > ..

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi Mitchell, > >> > >> You might add > >> > >> == > >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| > >> == > >> > >> in /etc/inittab. > >> > >> > > > > But why was the OP getting the message in th

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

Anthony Campbell writes: > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi Mitchell, >> >> You might add >> >> == >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| >> == >> >> in /etc/inittab. >> >> > > But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of > weeks ago I was also getting it and then

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

It might be a security policy, for him, that changed without realizing it. But, for you, I don't know. I would be interested in knowing why such things happen. Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi Mitchell, >> >> You might add >> >> == >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulo

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi Mitchell, > > You might add > > == > |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| > == > > in /etc/inittab. > > But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of weeks ago I was also getting it and then it went away as mysteriously as it came.

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

Please do not take into accounts the two `|' which were unfortunately inserted at the beginning and at the end of the line of code. Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to con

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to continue " > > during reboot of the system. It would oc

"Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

Hi, I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message "Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue " during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages starting NFS (... etc) ... starting sessions setting console screen modes initilizing