Bug 543778

Summary:	Vlock shouldn't be included by default on install CDs
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Yuri Numerov <achi>
Component:	InstallCD	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Yuri Numerov 2015-03-19 11:12:25 UTC

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?

Comment 1 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-03-19 11:18:42 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2015-06-15 06:01:42 UTC

+1 on removing vlock, or at least don't let it start until there is a root password.

Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2016-11-13 19:08:51 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-02-06 21:36:41 UTC

We've had a few releases since, so I'm going to close this bug as resolved.