[fedora-arm] Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-22_Alpha-TC1-sda.raw.xz on Cubietruck

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/19/2015 01:16 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> Well I have a few things perhaps of interest.
>>
>> I have problems with the firstboot setup and root password.  I am using the
>> installer script and the --norootpass option.  When I am prompted at the
>> setup, I ignore the setting of the root password. Fortunately I also did not
>> set my user password and made my user have admin priv.  Because when I got to
>> login, it wanted a password for root and I could not figure out what.  In the
>> past I would just provide 'root' for the login and I was good.  So I logged in
>> with my user and did a 'sudo passwd root' to set the root password to what I
>> wanted.
> I have to assume systemd is starting something like:
>
> 	/bin/bash -i
>
> rather than the former (and familiar) root shell without
> login authentication.  The same behaviour may be done under
> older initscripts
>
> And put this in /etc/inittab if you want the behavior where it
> is not prompted:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash -i
>
>
>
> Robert -- could you check your system and see, and advise the
> list of the results of your examination?

So again the installer script does:

             sudo sed -i 's/root:x:/root::/' /tmp/root/etc/passwd


This results in /etc/passwd entry for root being:

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

This is from checking before installing the card in the Cubie.  But 
after running firstboot, and NOT responding to the 'root password not 
set', I see from logging in as me with admin priv:

root:!!$1$oIqdSlOQ$AkrPPHJnLMO2g7CbEklLn1:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

So firstboot is sliding something in for the root password, overriding 
the nopassword option in the installer script.

I suppose if I had quit out of the setup, it might have left root alone...

And what decides if there is the serial console setup or the graphical 
config?   The presense of the serial console connection?