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Richard Kettlewell <
invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> I think TNP is seeing the emergency.service unit, which is run under
> certain boot failure conditions. The effect is to run sulogin, which
> normally requests the root password.
>
> AFAICT if there is no root password set, sulogin will give you a root
> shell without requesting any authentication.
Yes. Ubuntu doesn`t set a root password, so when you get that prompt to
enter the root password for maintenance you can just press Enter and you`re
in.
Theo
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