On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 04/27/2018 05:13 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
>>
>> I suppose that's true, but in that case, there's probably a larger issue
>> involved and you'll likely need a live boot of some sort anyway. There is
>> one case where this does become a problem. If dracut runs into a problem
>> during boot and requires the root password to start the shell, you're in
>> trouble. There's a bug open for that, but a solution has not been decided
>> on yet. However, again, this is a really rare case and a live boot would
>> probably be easier anyway.
>
> Could you post the bug number? Thanks.
Turns out it's a really old RHEL bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045574
I don't see one for Fedora.
Thanks (a proposal for a dracut module to reset a root password!)