* Michael Whapples <[email protected]> [20090613 12:58]: > I noticed that yesterday when I did an install of debian using > grml-debootstrap it seemed to fail to set the password of the root > account, it seemed to just print out the help message of the chpasswd > command. This was using grml installed on a USB drive using grml2usb and > the ISO image of grml 2009.05. I also encountered the same when I did > the grml2hd installation using the RC2 CD. The only way I was able to > log in to the installed system was to boot grml again, mount the drive > where I had done the installation and remove the x from the password > field of the /etc/passwd file and then reboot back to the HD > installation and log in without a password and then set a new password > (there may be another way but this is the one I am certain of).
Yeah, this is due a very annoying (and stupid, as in: no clean upgrade path) change in chpasswd. > This seems like a critical bug to me as by default it seems grml2hd and > grml-debootstrap leave the installed system unuseable. This issue has been fixed within grml2hd for the stable release. I'll take care of if for grml-debootstrap, it's recorded as http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue692 - thanks for the report. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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