On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:56:05 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 02/19/2015 01:16 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > >> Well I have a few things perhaps of interest. > >> > >> I have problems with the firstboot setup and root password. I am > >> using the installer script and the --norootpass option. When I am > >> prompted at the setup, I ignore the setting of the root password. > >> Fortunately I also did not set my user password and made my user > >> have admin priv. Because when I got to login, it wanted a > >> password for root and I could not figure out what. In the past I > >> would just provide 'root' for the login and I was good. So I > >> logged in with my user and did a 'sudo passwd root' to set the > >> root password to what I wanted. > > I have to assume systemd is starting something like: > > > > /bin/bash -i > > > > rather than the former (and familiar) root shell without > > login authentication. The same behaviour may be done under > > older initscripts > > > > And put this in /etc/inittab if you want the behavior where it > > is not prompted: > > > > 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash -i > > > > > > > > Robert -- could you check your system and see, and advise the > > list of the results of your examination? > > So again the installer script does: > > sudo sed -i 's/root:x:/root::/' /tmp/root/etc/passwd > > > This results in /etc/passwd entry for root being: > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > This is from checking before installing the card in the Cubie. But > after running firstboot, and NOT responding to the 'root password not > set', I see from logging in as me with admin priv: > > root:!!$1$oIqdSlOQ$AkrPPHJnLMO2g7CbEklLn1:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > So firstboot is sliding something in for the root password, > overriding the nopassword option in the installer script. > > I suppose if I had quit out of the setup, it might have left root > alone... > > And what decides if there is the serial console setup or the > graphical config? The presense of the serial console connection? you should use initial-setup to configure root password, timezone, language and user if desired. the option in the installer script is for use in cases where you can't access initial-setup. I would suggest that going forward you just use initial-setup as that is how things are designed to be done. Dennis _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
