Comment 7 for bug 70901
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| Howard Thomson (howard-thomson) wrote Install password incorrectly processed ? | #7 |
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My password typed in during the install was not recognized when logging in to the system after completed installation.
I presumed that the installation request for the new password string had failed to pass the string unaltered to the passwd program, or its equivalent.
I recovered the install by booting from the live-cd, mounting the root f/s, removing the password field from /etc/shadow, running /bin/passwd to assign my password, and then rebooting and successfully logging in to both tty1/console and the KDM/X console.
Due to the seeding process in generating a new encrypted password, it is not possible to check what the string might be that the install process actually encrypted as the initial password stored in /etc/shadow, at least not without providing a custom /bin/passwd in the install packages.
I checked 'stty -a' on tty1, and the '#' character is not used as an edit character.