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Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Imp...

Maybe we should kick off some nvidia builds (and bluefint) since I just published this LOL
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/booting-to-rescue-emergency-mode-improved/562

Universal Blue

Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Improved

Fedora already has a built-in mechanism (provided by systemd) for booting into rescue and emergency modes. However, those documents have limitations as by default, Fedora (and thus Universal Blue systems), do not set a root password during install. Thus, when the emergency or rescue mode is reached, the user is shown the error: Cannot open acc...

Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Improved

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tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•2/6/24, 5:11 AM

Does this mean resetting a user password should be easier for most users?

tryhardsoccermomswag

Ttryhardsoccermomswag Does this mean resetting a user password should be easier for most users?

bsherman

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bshermanOP•2/6/24, 5:11 AM

Hah! I was just about to mention you regarding this!

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•2/6/24, 5:12 AM

yeah we just kicked SteamOS's ass w/ this

bsherman

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bshermanOP•2/6/24, 5:12 AM

Yes! this means setting a password can be done from singlesingle or

emergency

emergency

instead of doing

init=/bin/bash

init=/bin/bash

and needing to type the extra commands to make sure selinux doesn't get hosed

bsherman

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bshermanOP•2/6/24, 5:12 AM

once our builds have this... we can update this https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=161