Bug#806852: systemd: rescue.service fails if root password is not set, needs sulogin --force

[James Lu]

Control: severity -1 important
Justification: potentially leaves the system in an unbootable,
unrecoverable state

Hi all,

This issue is extremely frustrating to say the least because I've been
locked out of my own computer over a simple fstab issue that could have
easily been fixed with a root shell... Instead I had to prepare a
bootdisk from another machine etc. because the root account was locked?
I happen to use sudo exclusively and I'm a bit annoyed that no warnings
for cases like these were ever displayed.

Seeing that a patch was already proposed in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802211, can
*something* be done about this problem? Requiring login to a sudoer
account when root is locked sounds like a great compromise solution if
possible.

Best,
James

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