F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been holding back my tongue on this one, but I've been bitten by it 
> enough times now that I think I can write something with a clear head.  To 
> put it shortly: disallowing root logins by default is a complete headache 
> for systems where anything goes wrong.  I've run into several different 
> failure modes now: if / and /tmp get full, it's impossible to login as a 
> normal user, and if NFS goes down and /home isn't accessible, one cannot login 
> to fix the problem.

You can at run level 3. You can even start X after that.

Rahul