Ubuntu
sysvinit package

Init 1 asks for root password

Bug #25218 reported by John C. McCabe-Dansted on 2005-11-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #18908: UTF problems - installer fails to create user. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sysvinit (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

Bug Description

In Kubuntu 5.10: Upon entering runlevel 1 I am asked for the root password, which
should not exist in Ubuntu. The first user password is not accepted.

Ubuntu gives me the option of pressing Control-D to continue, but this takes me to
runlevel 2, which does not appear to be any lighter than runlevel 5 - in Kubuntu kdm
runs in runlevel 2.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2006-01-06:

Do you have a password set for the root user, or have you set a password and
subsequently locked the account?

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John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht) wrote on 2006-01-06:

Hmm, I may have set the root password and then deleted it. I didn't have a root when I reported
this bug. Since then I have added a root password since I use recovery mode quite often.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2006-01-09:

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18908.