Hello.
I don't know where to place the bug and how to communicate with Debian developers, so I will write it here.
I'm doing a clean install of Debian 8 in a qemu-kvm virtual machine on a Debian 7 host.
The problem is that when I'm doing the installation, if I place no password in the root password, and then I write a password in the password confirmation field, it will not confirm that the first password is blank.
Maybe this is the default behaviour, I don't really know how the process of password confirmation works.
I would be glad to know how to submit bugs another way too.
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[SOLVED] Bug- Root password is not confirmed on installation
[SOLVED] Bug- Root password is not confirmed on installation
Last edited by jesus92gz on 2015-03-12 11:39, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
Does it accept the password?
If you do not fill in the root password in the installer the root account is locked (ie cannot be accessed by normal log in methods).
To report a bug, see here:
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
EDIT: @dasein -- I thought you used startpage.com
If you do not fill in the root password in the installer the root account is locked (ie cannot be accessed by normal log in methods).
To report a bug, see here:
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
EDIT: @dasein -- I thought you used startpage.com
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
I do--all the goodness of Google (well, most of it) without any "bubbling." But there's no lmstfy.com, and I sorta wanted to punctuate the point.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:EDIT: @dasein -- I thought you used startpage.com
Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
Thank you, I will submit it there.
I searched in Google before creating this thread, being forwarded to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ but I could not find any useful link.
I will follow the guide on how to submit a bug, which Head_on_a_stick suggested ( https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting )
Thank you
I searched in Google before creating this thread, being forwarded to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ but I could not find any useful link.
I will follow the guide on how to submit a bug, which Head_on_a_stick suggested ( https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting )
Thank you
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
Are you sure it is a bug?jesus92gz wrote:Thank you, I will submit it there.
Was the root account activated in the installed system with the password entered in the "confirm" field only?
If it was not activated, I would think that would be the expected behavior.
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
I didn't try. The bug report hasn't been submitted yet.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Was the root account activated in the installed system with the password entered in the "confirm" field only?
Another problem is that I'm not able to change root password after setting it up (correctly or wrongly) in the installation process.
I don't know if this is the "default" behaviour, but it would be interesting to change this value in any step of the installation.
I think that this "bug" may be more of a suggestion than a problem-to-solve. I'm guessing that it may be a security feature in order to not allow root password changes during installation after setting it up.
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
jesus92gz wrote:Another problem is that I'm not able to change root password after setting it up (correctly or wrongly) in the installation process.
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su -c 'passwd root'
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sudo passwd root
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Re: Bug - Root password is not confirmed on installation
Yes. My user is added to sudoers.
I have just installed Debian 8 in a virtual machine again, to try this behaviour.
I have been able to change root password running sudo and login to root account.
I did not submit the bug report finally.
Thank you
I have just installed Debian 8 in a virtual machine again, to try this behaviour.
I have been able to change root password running sudo and login to root account.
I did not submit the bug report finally.
Thank you