[Fedora-livecd-list] [Patch] setting root password

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 12:28 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> This is an attempt to fix being able to set the root password from
>> kickstart.
> 
> This changes the behavior, though.  A blank password isn't the same as
> setting the passwd to empty with -d.  So you need to check for a lack of
> a root pass and still set it with -d.
> 
> Also, instead of essentially running sed on /etc/shadow for the case of
> a crypted password, you can use usermod -p.  Or it could use libuser
> like anaconda currently does, but that's probably overkill.
> 
> Jeremy
> 

Good point. Improvements attached.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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