Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

Scott Rotondo scott.rotondo at sun.com
Mon Jul 7 13:25:47 PDT 2008


Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
> Post this case I expect it will look like this
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> Requesting System Maintenance Mode
> SINGLE USER MODE
> 
> Enter username (control-d to bypass): darrenm

Implementation suggestion: It would be nice for hitting carriage return 
at this point to be acceptable as a synonym for "root". I don't think 
it's necessary to clutter the prompt with that information, but it would 
be a reasonable interpretation for a null string entered at this prompt.

	Scott

> Password: ********
> single-user privilege assigned to /dev/console.
> Entering System Maintenance Mode
> #  pcred -a $$
> 100136: euid=0 ruid=0 suid=0  egid=0 rgid=0 sgid=0
>         groups: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12
> #




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