[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#406587: init and telinit can reveal root pass on return from runlevel 1

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Grant Thomas, le Thu 11 Jan 2007 21:17:40 -0600, a écrit :
> I have the same problem as Lewis Stoddart above, with a small difference.
> 
> My machine gives the bash error when the username is supplied.
> I do not receive the password in cleartext.
> 
> The problem does not appear when the maintenance mode is skipped with 
> <crtl>+D.

What seems to happen is that init doesn't kill the maintenance shell: I
can see it running on tty1, concurrently with getty, thus things are
mixed: characters sometimes to go the maintenance shell, sometimes to
getty.

Samuel