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? -- Russ herrold _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
