Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

[Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@bfs.de>]

Am Mo., 18.März.2024 um 15:24:14 schrieb Thomas Schweikle:
> Package: Debian installer
> Version: As on Debian live-CD/DVD for Debian 12.5
> Severity: critical
>
> 1. Download debian live-CD/DVD from: 
> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso <https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso> or https://ftp.gwdg.de/debian-cd/12.5.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso <https://ftp.gwdg.de/debian-cd/12.5.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso>
> 2. Boot from this DVD
> 3. Doubble click on "Install to harddisk"
> 4. Select to erase a partitioned harddisk
> 5. Select "German"
> 6. For User and Passwort enter
>      Full name: demo Demo
>      Username: de-de
>      Password 1st: start123
>      Password 2nd: start123
> 7. Click install
> 8. Wait until the installer finishes and reboots into this newly 
> installed system
> 9. Try to login with the credentials given above:
>      User: de-de
>      Password: start123
>
> The newly installed system just tells: unknown user or password, user or 
> password wrong. You wont be able to login.
> Having a closer look at the system installed:
> - The system language ist set to en_US, instead, as selected to de_DE.
> - The keyboard language and layout ist set to en_US, instead, as 
> selected to de_DE.
> - The user given isn't created at all.
> - The password isn't entered into /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.
> - Root is created, but does not have a password, while passwordless 
> logins are prohibited
>
> Conclusion: it is not possible to login to the system. Youl have to hack 
> it to get access.

And: after rebooting without any CD/DVD it just boots into an error: no 
system found.
--
Thomas

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