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bug#35806: Login passwords incorrect on some newly installed 1.0.1 syste
From: |
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
Subject: |
bug#35806: Login passwords incorrect on some newly installed 1.0.1 systems |
Date: |
Mon, 20 May 2019 22:02:51 +0200 |
User-agent: |
NeoMutt/20180716 |
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 05:01:40PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
>
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > on a system newly installed from the 1.0.1 ISO image — on only some
> > reinstalls. Maybe it was my fault, but maybe not, it is kind of
> > spooky. Can others reproduce?
>
> No. (I did many installs in VMs before the release… :-))
OK. I consider it likely that a typo was the reason for the wrong
password on the first install.
However, the second install had no normal user account, as you can see
in my /etc/shadow (which is attached again). It should not have been
possible to install without user account. Now that I think about it,
I believe when I got shown the user account creation page in the
installer, I accidentally immediately pressed some key (maybe Enter)
and it threw me back to the locale selection. I configured everything
again, but I believe this was the reason no user account was created.
I could now make the user account creation page crash again by
entering a wrong password confirmation, but after going through the
installer again, the resulting config contains a user and I can login.
I do not know how I managed to break this.
>
> Note that you can check by doing an install in a VM using the attached
> script.
>
Thank you. For now I’ll try on real hardware though.
Regards,
Florian
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