I tried the latest hardened liveCD, and it puts me at a login prompt, but doesn't tell me what the root password is. I'm assuming it's supposed to automagically log me in, but it does not. The only problem on startup was it failed to mount root partition, so i hit ctrl-D to continue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Looks like a duplicate of bug 82556... Hardened LiveCD is mentioned in one of its comments.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82556 ***
This is something different entirely and not related to bug #82556
The new 2005.1 livecd, which is available by bittorent[1] and on the mirrors[2], still scrambles the root password, and makes a default user, but clearly explains what to do at the isolinux boot screen. I highly recommend using this CD over the older ones due to various improvements, and hopefully all remaining confusion regarding how to login is settled by the boot message. [1] http://tracker.netdomination.org/ [2] experimental/x86/hardened/livecd/hardened-x86-2005.1.iso
