System drop to emergency shell if encrypted home password was not provided

Bug #1840529 reported by Usama Akkad
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systemd (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

System drop to emergency shell if encrypted partition password was not provided.
So I boot my computer, press enter multiple times and it drops to root shell.
Also if I turned my computer on and didn't enter any password it will eventually drop to root shell.

I've setup home directory on the encrypted partition.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: systemd 237-3ubuntu10.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1-generic 5.0.15
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Aug 17 12:21:17 2019
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N4050
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-23-generic root=UUID=e25d8992-fe1b-4d01-9615-b22536141a31 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: systemd
SystemdDelta:
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service → /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/user@.service → /lib/systemd/system/user@.service.d/timeout.conf

 2 overridden configuration files found.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/03/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0GGRV5
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd08/03/2012:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN4050:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0GGRV5:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron N4050
dmi.product.sku: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote : Bug is not a security issue

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

information type: Private Security → Public
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Dan Streetman (ddstreet) wrote :

please reopen if this is still an issue

Changed in systemd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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