On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 7:36 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 09:35 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 10:43 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 10:31, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > When I set up a rawhide cloud image > > > > (Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20211217.n.1.x86_64.qcow2 from > > > > download.fedoraproject.org) with a root password using virt-sysprep: > > > > > > > > virt-sysprep -a <image> --root-password password:123456 > > > > --selinux-relabel [...] > > > > > > > > > > I believe this is intentional. Please see emails with subjects: > > > > > > F36 Change: Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root (System-Wide Change proposal) > > > F36 Change: Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. > > > (Self-Contained Change proposal) > > > > > > there may be some others. Basically root login is no longer allowed > > > via PAM and possibly other tools. My understanding is that you need to > > > login as a user, and then become root. > > > > No, I don't think that's it. None of those changes is meant to preclude > > explicitly setting a root password. > > > > I think this is actually a bug in Rawhide since 20211215.n.0 . I did > > not investigate it in detail since I'm on PTO, my colleague Frantisek > > Zatloukal (CC'ed) is looking into it. We see the same problem with any > > login attempt on console after a minimal install; it works OK after a > > Server install. The Workstation live images also fail to boot, they > > just get stuck at the splash screen. We're not sure yet if it's two > > different problems. > > > > The most likely suspect seems to be: > > > > Package: authselect-1.3.0-3.fc36 > > Old package: authselect-1.2.4-2.fc36 > > > > So CCing pbrezina. It's notable that the bug doesn't happen on upgraded > > systems - there's a test that starts from a minimal install of F35 and > > upgrades to F36, and that test works OK. So I suspect the problem > > occurs when the installer tries to do initial authselect configuration > > of the installed system. That's about as far as we got up to the > > weekend. Frantisek has logs he could forward to pbrezina. > > I've filed a bug for this now: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034336 Thanks! Glad to see that this is actually a bug and is being worked on. After Stephen's reply I was scratching my head over how to "unlock" the root user and why none of the solutions I found online were working :) Looks like I should be able to do what I wanted also on an F35 image, so at least I'm not blocked by the bug. -- Ondrej Mosnacek Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
