Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> But... when i choose 'Enable root account' -> No, probably fill in
> a name for the normal user, but choose (go back) and then choose
> 'Enable root account' -> Yes, the questions to set the root password
> won't be asked. A normal user (e.g. 'piet' is created, root does not
> have a password and also sudo is not set up to give piet sudo rights.
> So after the installation i'm left with an unusable situation:
Thanks for a very clear problem report.
The bug is here:
db_get passwd/root-login
if [ "$RET" = false ]; then
# root password will be locked
db_set passwd/root-password ""
db_set passwd/root-password-crypted "!"
First time through, these values are set. The second time through,
it thinks these have been preseeded, so doesn't ask for a root password.
Here's a patch, which I have not tested:
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog (revision 42928)
+++ debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+user-setup (1.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix backing up after having chosen to not enable root logins, and changing
+ it to enable root logins. Since the crypted password was set to a locked
+ passowrd in the first pass, the second pass failed to ask for a root
+ password. Closes: #400766
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:49:36 -0500
+
user-setup (1.7) unstable; urgency=low
[ Updated translations ]
Index: user-setup-ask
===================================================================
--- user-setup-ask (revision 42928)
+++ user-setup-ask (working copy)
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@
db_set passwd/root-password-crypted "!"
elif ! root_password; then
# First check whether the root password was preseeded crypted
+ # to an actual password (not locked).
db_get passwd/root-password-crypted || true
- if ! test "$RET" ; then
+ if ! test "$RET" || [ "$RET" = "!" ]; then
# No preseed of the root password hash
# we will prompt the user
+ db_set passwd/root-password-crypted ""
db_input critical passwd/root-password || true
db_input critical passwd/root-password-again || true
fi
--
see shy jo
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