Entering "root" as username during installation renders OS unusable.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| user-setup (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When a new copy of Ubuntu is installed on a PC, it asks me to enter a username, password and retype the password to create a new user account. Noobish as I was, I entered "root" as username with a password and retyped the password. The installer accepted the username and password and went on.. until.. it was done installing. The bug reared it's ugly antennae when I entered the login screen and typed the username and password I had earlier created. It said that the root account was locked by default and that I had to login to a normal (non-root) user account. Now, I hadn't created any other user account during installation as the installer gladly accepted root as username. Stranded as I was, I had to re-install the operating system.
Windows seems to actually check user input in such situations.. and reports when I enter Administrator as the username for a new user account during the installation of XP. (Those five textboxes with the clippet-like coin asking me to enter the names of the users of this computer..)
(Edited on behalf of Ganesh)
| Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| Ganesh (ganeshn11) wrote | #2 |
| description: | updated |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #3 |
Firstly, you might want to check out https:/
Also, you *do* need to create a root account, as that is what's used for the recovery mode.