On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:28:17PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >Package: cdimage.debian.org >Severity: normal >Tags: d-i > >Dear Maintainer, > >Using the debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-xfce.iso image, I booted to the install >option from the syslinux menu that started up debian-installer. > >I installed setting a root password, and creating a new normal user. > >After installation, the root password seems unset (not in /etc/shadow), >and my newly created user in the system does not have sudo rights, leaving >no normal method for a user to escalate or log in as root.
I've found the problem now. vmdebootstrap explicitly locks the password for root in /etc/shadow using "passwd -l". That changes the crypted root passwd from "*" to "!*". Later on, user-setup-udeb in the installer only looks for a locked root account containing "*". It doesn't recognise the "!*" and assumes that's a valid password so doesn't change it. I'll get user-setup-udeb fixed, but for now I have a quick-hack fix in live-customise.sh to replace '!*' with '*'. All works after that point. \o/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
