Bug#658968: debian-installer: permits install with out configuring root password
The option was definitely there... I just never visited it :(
Sam
On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:05 PM, "Christian PERRIER" <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Sam Bingner (sam@bingner.com):
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>> I did it again to test, and it was because I did expert to enable the network console installer component that I was able to bypass it. If I do not do an expert install it does not give the selection menu.
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>> I suppose that is understandable, but a warning would still be nice... if you want I'll go ahead and do another expert install and skip that... but I think that was the information you were missing to understand.
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> OK, then if you're running an expert install, you should go back to
> the installer's main menu after each step. And, then, there should be
> a "Set users and passwords" entry. I would have said that one has to
> complete it at some point because some other steps require it to be
> complete.
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> What you seem to suggest is that you actually never went to that
> step. Do you remember if you saw that option or not in the main
> installer menu?
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