Control: found -1 1.48 Control: found -1 1.55 Control: tag -1 confirmed Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> (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 ([email protected]): > > 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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