New subject: [Bug 1802159] Default login for Fedora core os either undocumented or missing

12 Feb 2020


      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802159
Bug ID: 1802159
           Summary: Default login for Fedora core os either undocumented
                    or missing
           Product: Fedora Documentation
           Version: devel
            Status: NEW
         Component: install-guide
          Assignee: pbokoc@redhat.com
          Reporter: hadmut@danisch.de
        QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org
                CC: pbokoc@redhat.com, zach@oglesby.co
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora
Description of problem:
I was just giving Fedora Core OS a first try and installed it from the ISO
image to the bare metal following the instructions at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/bare-metal/
Since I didn't have an ignition file yet, I just ran
sudo coreos-installer install /dev/sda
with out the ignition file, and this worked.
After rebooting, the system came up, but I could not login on the console. The
Docs do not contain a hint about what username and what password to use. When i
mounted the file system on a different linux machine I saw that there is a core
use with no password set. Since I'm not familiar with ostree, I wasn't sure
whether I was breaking anything if I just changed the password in the
/etc/shadow on that disk, and this is probably not the intended way to use the
system.
You end up with having a system that's of no use since you can't login.
Either the docs should tell how to login after plain install, or
coreos-installer should prevent from installing a system with no use and no
login.
regards
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