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Bug#604081: root password mismatch



Control: found -1 1.48
Control: found -1 1.55
Control: tag -1 confirmed

Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> (2010-11-20):
> reassign 604081 user-setup
> retitle 604081 Does not show password mismatch when first entered root password is empty
> thanks
> 
> Quoting Daniel Pocock (daniel@pocock.com.au):
> > Package: installation-reports
> > 
> > Installing amd64 as a domU in xen
> > 
> > At the first prompt for root password, just hit enter
> > 
> > At the second prompt, type a password
> > 
> > No password-mismatch error is displayed, installer proceeds to
> > setting up a user account
> > 
> > Once rebooted, root login impossible using blank password or the
> > `repeat' password
> > 
> > Mount the root fs (e.g. from dom0 or another OS), inspect /etc/shadow:
> > 
> > root:!:14932:0:99999:7:::
> 
> When the root password is empty, root account is disabled. This is
> what the first template says.
> 
> Still, one can understand that entering the pwd empty, then setting
> something in the confirmation is user error and the user should have a
> chance to correct it. And we should anyway to give the false
> impression that a root password will be set.
> 
> Reassigning to user-setup as this bug belongs to that package.

Still the case in wheezy and above, so recording the versions
accordingly.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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