[$] Locked root and rescue mode

Fedora is among the group of Linux distributions that, by default, lockout the root account such that it does not have a password and cannot belogged into. But, traditionally, "rescue mode" boots the system intosingle-usermode, which requires a root password-difficult to provide if it does not exist. A Fedora proposal to remove the need for the password inthat case, and just drop into a root shell, does not seem likely to go farin that form,but it would seem to have pointed toward some better solutions for theunderlying problem.