| Summary: | 2008.0-r1 autoconfig doesn't recognize passwd= parameter in cmdline | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Qiangning Hong <hongqn> |
| Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | patch to let autoconfig understand passwd= parameter in cmdline correctly | ||
Created attachment 186312 [details, diff]
patch to let autoconfig understand passwd= parameter in cmdline correctly
the strlen and parse_opt functions are copied from the initrd of installer cd.
The installer is deprecated. |
/etc/init.d/autoconfig support passwd= parameter in cmdline, but doesn't handle it correctly. The code says: ... case "${x}" ... passwd=*) PASSWD="no" PASSWORD="$*" ;; ... Here the code wants, i guess, to put the passwd in cmdline into $PASSWORD. But the code above doesn't work. So that whatever you set after "passwd=" in cmdline, the root password is always empty. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. change the kernel cmdline, add a passwd=secret in it 2. boot with the changed cmdline 3. check the root password (e.g. via ssh login) Actual Results: the root has no password. Press enter directly will bring you to logged in status. Expected Results: the root password should be set to "secret" I'll upload a patch to fix it.