no root passwd debian

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

On 11/21/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:58:07AM -0500, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> > I was always under the impression that the 'su' command changed to
> > that user in 'single user' mode, hence the 'su' command.
>
> Single user is the mode in which the system has just root logged in at
> the console with nothing else really running.  Nothing to do with su.
>
> The man page for su says: Change user or become super user.  Perhaps
> they think it means switch user or super user.
>
> That would perhaps make sudo be 'super user do' which makes sense to.
> Certainly single user does not. :)
>
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Heh.  I've always been under the impression that it was 'single user'
because when you were logged in as that user it was different than
when you 'actually' logged in (through gdm,xdm,etc or a VT).  I've
been under that impression since like 2000 or 2001.  Heh.
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