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user-setup package

expert install produced passwordless root account

Bug #107042 reported by Ian Jackson
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

I installed in expert mode using d-i rc 20070415 (feisty i386). After I had finished the installation, I found that:
 * The user I had asked to create had not been created
 * The root account was enabled with no password
 * gdm would not allow me to log in as root although login would

During the installation I said that I would like a useable root account and answered the prompt for a password for it, and also asked to create a normal user for myself.

I'm pretty sure I did do all of the things necessary to make this work correctly although (a) I was installing in German and (b) there are lots and lots of questions so it is possible that I made some kind of mistake.

I preserved the install logs (before knowing that it hadn't worked right!) and will attach the install/syslog,

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Tags: iso-testing
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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Just for the record and triagers, I did several expert installs recently with root users, and it has always worked fine so far. I'm not denying a bug in here, just saying that it does not seem to happen every time/with every combination of d-i answers.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Ian, is it possible that you chose a root filesystem that already had an installation of some kind on it, and opted not to format it?

Changed in user-setup:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : Re: [Bug 107042] Re: expert install produced passwordless root account

Colin Watson writes ("[Bug 107042] Re: expert install produced passwordless root account"):
> Ian, is it possible that you chose a root filesystem that already had an
> installation of some kind on it, and opted not to format it?

It seems unlikely. I expect I would have been warned about that ?

IIRC I did do manual partitioning and I may well have intended to
reuse a partition; I can't remember any more exactly what sequence of
things I did.

Ian.

Stéphane Graber (stgraber)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for user-setup (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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