Re: When shadow passwords are disabled it is not possible to login as root after install
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 04:49:26PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>On Sun, 2019-04-21 at 13:18 +0200, Lukasz Golonka wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:46:56 +0200
>> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > This was filed a while ago, but it seems nobody worked on it yet:
>> > https://bugs.debian.org/722627
>>
>> I am of course no expert regarding bug prioritizing in Debian, but
>> shouldn't it be considered as a critical one, because under the right
>> circumstances user can be locked from the newly installed system?
>
>No. Since it's a new installation, no valuable data has been lost.
To be honest, I can't think of a reason why we even offer a non-shadow
system. Anyone?
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