This may not be a bug, it's just a little annoyance I've found in the install CDs. When you start from the install CD you start a system that doesn't allow root logins from ssh, has no root password and has no users. Why is vlock there? I've found myself locked out of the computer several times because of this, and I can't figure out any way this would be useful. ¿Is this really needed?
That's actually a quite good catch, I think I have hit a similar one when using screen myself :P As things are, either we disable vlock when no root password has been run or we avoid providing it, I think we can do the first one with a small wrapper script, what do you guys think?
+1 on removing vlock, or at least don't let it start until there is a root password.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/commit/?id=f636c7e8862cd8f219a5a86379707812c6d260e3 This commit drops vlock and will be applied on the next successful build of the CDs.
We've had a few releases since, so I'm going to close this bug as resolved.
