NAME
sulogin - single-user login
SYNOPSIS
sulogin [options] [tty]
DESCRIPTION
sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single-user mode.
The user is prompted:
Give root password for system maintenance (or type Control-D for normal startup):
If the root account is locked and --force is specified, no password is required.
sulogin will be connected to the current terminal, or to the optional tty device that can be specified on the command line (typically /dev/console).
When the user exits from the single-user shell, or presses control-D at the prompt, the system will continue to boot.
OPTIONS
-e, --force
Only use the -e option if you are sure the console is physically protected against unauthorized access.
-p, --login-shell
-t, --timeoutseconds
-h, --help
-V, --version
ENVIRONMENT
sulogin looks for the environment variable SUSHELL or sushell to determine what shell to start. If the environment variable is not set, it will try to execute root’s shell from /etc/passwd. If that fails, it will fall back to /bin/sh.
AUTHORS
sulogin was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg for sysvinit and later ported to util-linux by Dave Reisner and Karel Zak.
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY
The sulogin command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.