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So, in order to improve security, you now have a procedure in place that allows an unknown person to change the root password without any auditing of the event.

Maybe having root passwords expire...

Keep in mind I'm working from my experience with Linux. The situation seems almost identical, right down to the 'root password for maintenance' prompt, but beneath the skin it might not be quite...

Try ctrl-D to skip. If it gets you into a shell at all, you're there. You may need to do some manual mounting and/or remounting before you can actually alter the shadow files though, since / will...

These commands should be run for each X session.

Even while you set these settings to the initial X session (dtlogin banner), they would very likely be reset after new logins.

unless there are better suggestions ...

try adding those lines into /etc/profile ... that way they are automatically run upon login ...