friendly-recovery drops to a root shell even when a root password is set
Bug #220986 reported by
Christoph Langner
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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friendly-recovery |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Michael Vogt | ||
friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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High
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: friendly-recovery
You can gain access to root even when you set a root password when friendly-recovery.
TEST CASE:
1) Install Ubuntu Hardy
2) Set a password for root
$ sudo passwd
3) Reboot into the recovery mode
4) Choose "Drop to root shell prompt"
5) install version from hardy-proposed
6) repeat steps 3 and 4
7) verify that it asks now for a password on login
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after remove friendly-recovery it will ask for password