Bug#784238: systemd: emergency.service restart leads to unusable system

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 05/04/2015 11:16 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 04.05.2015 um 15:56 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz:
>
>> Please learn that single user mode is perfectly fine for doing all weird
>> things tou could imagine, including installing or removing things
>> because one doesn't want to boot a full system.
>
> single user mode != emergency mode

whatever, it behaves pretty much in the same way.
And installing packages is a very valid thing to do in ermergency mode, 
especially when you enter emergency mode because your little baby sytemd 
fails to find some of its files for whatever reason.


>> Then fix it.
>> The way it behaves currently is a security issue.
>
> You keep repeating that. Please show a way to exploit that "security issue".

see the screenshot? I managed to execute 'ss', anything else is just a 
matter of time.


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