Hi,

I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user mode 
have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I needed it.  As 
I usually set up my boxes root accounts with passwords disabled, single-user 
mode needs to be without root password.

Today, after having upgraded from 6.3, I needed to enter single-user mode at 
boot.  And I was asked for a password at boot time.  Is this change intentional?

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
# rpm -qa | grep -i sl_password_for_singleuser | wc -l
0
# grep SINGLE /etc/sysconfig/init
SINGLE=/sbin/sushell

If this change was intentional, how can I go back to the old behaviour?  I 
double checked the behaviour with an old VM with SL6.1, and that behaves as 
expected.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth