[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Revert "debian: Allow empty passwords"
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu May 19 12:40:06 UTC 2016
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> The workaround that has been used so for doesn't work.
>
> For the user account, the password is indeed removed in the end of the
> installation, but then login in from GDM is impossible. Although it
> works from a VT,
You mean after you logout and then get dropped to GDM? Which would
explain why it's hard to notice. If that's the case, are you sure we
don't have the same issue with Fedora?
>this is not something obvious that every user would
> try. So, requiring the user password seems the best to do for now and
> when another workaround is found the user password can be set to
> optional again.
Hmm.. Boxes might not be taking into account scripts requiring password.
> For the root account, the password is not removed in the of the
> installation and ends up being set as "dummyPa55w0rd", something that
> the user would never guess, unless they have access to the libosinfo
> code. So, requiring the admin password seems the best to do for now and
> when another workaround is found the admin password can be set to
> optional again.
I think the most important thing is to find out why the workaround is
not working. Could it be that it used to work but broken in recently
debian versions?
> This reverts commit 087a8f8a23895e2d792b0f6d26a9d0c01a6c7e87.
>
> Conflicts:
> data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com>
>
> Resolves:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336108
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336109
> ---
> .../debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in | 36 +++-------------------
> .../debian.org/debian-preseed-jeos.xml.in | 18 +----------
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in b/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in
> index fd69bf2..a786a30 100644
> --- a/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in
> +++ b/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-desktop.xml.in
> @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
> <param name="user-fullname" policy="optional"/>
> <param name="user-password" policy="optional"/>
> <param name="admin-password" policy="optional"/>
> +
> + <!-- This MUST be nonempty. Can we enforce this? -->
> + <param name="user-password" policy="required"/>
> + <param name="admin-password" policy="required"/>
> <param name="avatar-location" policy="optional"/>
> <param name="avatar-disk" policy="optional"/>
>
> @@ -130,34 +134,16 @@ d-i time/zone select <xsl:value-of select="config/l10n-timezone"/>
>
> ## Root
> d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/admin-password = ''">
> -# Real password will be set later
> -d-i passwd/root-password password dummyPa55w0rd
> -d-i passwd/root-password-again password dummyPa55w0rd
> - </xsl:when>
> - <xsl:otherwise>
> d-i passwd/root-password password <xsl:value-of select="config/admin-password"/>
> d-i passwd/root-password-again password <xsl:value-of select="config/admin-password"/>
> - </xsl:otherwise>
> -</xsl:choose>
>
> ## User
> d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
> d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
> d-i passwd/user-fullname string <xsl:call-template name="user-fullname"/>
> d-i passwd/username <xsl:value-of select="config/user-login"/>
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/user-password = ''">
> -# Real password will be set later
> -d-i passwd/user-password password dummyPa55w0rd
> -d-i passwd/user-password-again password dummyPa55w0rd
> - </xsl:when>
> - <xsl:otherwise>
> d-i passwd/user-password password <xsl:value-of select="config/user-password"/>
> d-i passwd/user-password-again password <xsl:value-of select="config/user-password"/>
> - </xsl:otherwise>
> -</xsl:choose>
>
>
> ### Partitioning
> @@ -201,20 +187,6 @@ d-i grub-installer/bootdev string <xsl:call-template name="target-disk"/>
> ### Cleanup
> d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
>
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/admin-password = ''">
> -# Delete root password
> -d-i preseed/late_command string in-target passwd -d root
> - </xsl:when>
> -</xsl:choose>
> -
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/user-password = ''">
> -# Delete user password
> -d-i preseed/late_command string in-target passwd -d <xsl:value-of select="config/user-login"/>
> - </xsl:when>
> -</xsl:choose>
> -
> ### Remove the installation DVD from the apt-get's sources.list
> d-i preseed/late_command string in-target sed -i '/cdrom/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> diff --git a/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-jeos.xml.in b/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-jeos.xml.in
> index 6d1c405..57dc8e4 100644
> --- a/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-jeos.xml.in
> +++ b/data/install-script/debian.org/debian-preseed-jeos.xml.in
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> <expected-filename>preseed.cfg</expected-filename>
> <can-pre-install-drivers>true</can-pre-install-drivers>
> <config>
> - <param name="admin-password" policy="optional"/>
> + <param name="admin-password" policy="required"/>
> <param name="l10n-keyboard" policy="optional" value-map="http://x.org/x11-keyboard"/>
> <param name="l10n-timezone" policy="optional"/>
> <param name="l10n-language" policy="optional"/>
> @@ -88,17 +88,8 @@ d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
>
> d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
> d-i passwd/make-user boolean false
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/admin-password = ''">
> -# Real password will be set later
> -d-i passwd/root-password password dummyPa55w0rd
> -d-i passwd/root-password-again password dummyPa55w0rd
> - </xsl:when>
> - <xsl:otherwise>
> d-i passwd/root-password password <xsl:value-of select="config/admin-password"/>
> d-i passwd/root-password-again password <xsl:value-of select="config/admin-password"/>
> - </xsl:otherwise>
> -</xsl:choose>
>
> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard ssh-server
>
> @@ -114,13 +105,6 @@ d-i apt-setup/security_host string
>
> d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
>
> -<xsl:choose>
> - <xsl:when test="config/admin-password = ''">
> -# Delete password
> -d-i preseed/late_command string in-target passwd -d root
> - </xsl:when>
> -</xsl:choose>
> -
> ### Remove the installation DVD from the apt-get's sources.list
> d-i preseed/late_command string in-target sed -i '/cdrom/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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