On 15/11/08 12:56 PM, Joep Vesseur wrote: > ... > On initial install, the installer asks for a root password. The text > based installer will warn about empty root passwords and will suggest > to either set a password or change PASSREQ before rebooting.
This is likely to trip up a lot of people... Why? Because people are used to the prompts and will just press "return" however many number of times it takes to get to the next screen without reading. It's worked that way it has for *years*... And similarly, I'd expect people are going to say "reboot after install" by default too. Putting the text on the screen lets you say "see, your fault for not reading", but I suspect we can do better and prevent the admin from booting up a box to which they cannot login to as root... even if it is their fault. So... What I'd like to suggest is for the system to refuse to boot into single user mode, after a fresh install, if 1) "PASSREQ=yes" and 2) the root password is empty and fail into a state where you've got the shell prompt and are "forced" to either change PASSREQ or set a root password. By forced I mean you cannot exit that state until one of the two actions required is taken. But even that might be unpalatable for jumpstart installs... Or maybe the install should not reboot (if automatic reboot has been selected) if the above condition is true? Darren
