Description of Problem: With the following line in /etc/inittab ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin sulogin does not correctly accept the input passwords or CTRL-D when init 1 or init S are invoked. From this point on, the only way to do anything usable is to reboot and I haven't checked to see if it will take a password when booting into single user mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-5.84.1-1 kernel-source-2.4.9-12 SysVinit-2.78-17 How Reproducible: place above line in inittab, goto userlevel 1 or S, problem should be immediately apparent. Steps to Reproduce: 1. init 1 2. sulogin then prompts for password 3. declares any input password to be invalid, does not accept CTRL-D Actual Results: declares password invalid, re-prompts. If you put a space infront of your password it will dump you out to a useless shell prompt. Expected Results: Expected to log in single user mode after being prompted for root password Additional Information: not at the moment...
This should be fixed with the 2.11f-17 util-linux update. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54741 ***