When installing on the graphics console, the cd boots up fine and drops you at a prompt. When installing on the serial console, the cd boots up fine, zaps root's password, and then presents a login prompt. I see that when doing a graphics console install, you start agetty on ttyS[01]; clearly one of these should be suppressed when it's the console. Either that or give root an empty password. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I would think we should simply have autologon on the serial lines, since you would have to be physically connected to "exploit" it. Objections?
tim - does the initrd handle the serial console goodness? it may be baselayout, but I am not sure. aron, do you have any comments?
Genkernel just boots the system and outputs to the kernel console [ which can be a visual or serial TTY ] while it's doing that - once it's done it's over to the system, and the kernel.
Aron, can you take a peek?
This was fixed a while ago: * rc-scripts 1.4.5 (08 Apr 2004) Patch from Gustavoz to livecd-functions.sh to run bash instead of login on serial consoles, necessary due to scrambled root passwords. Current stable baselayout says: baselayout-1.9.4-r3.ebuild:SV=1.4.16 # rc-scripts version So we should be all set for the next round of livecds. This bug has bitten me in the past too... :-/
