Restart: PSARC/2008/321 - No Root Login

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:25:47PM -0700, Scott Rotondo wrote:
> 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.

If so shouldn't the prompt indicate this?

> >Enter username (control-d to bypass, return for root): ...