[2104] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Cluster install doesn't set root password.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Feb 7 20:00:21 2000
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
linux-testers@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 07 Feb 2000 20:00:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: Garry Zacheiss's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2000 04:28:09 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hemaobja9.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It appears that the Redhat shipped RPM setup-2.0.5-1 installs
> /etc/passwd without a password for root, and expects it to be set
> manually at some point in the install. We don't want to prompt the user
> for a root password at any point. The easiest solution would be what we
> do on other platforms: Copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow we want to
> use out of AFS onto the local disk of the machine. This wouldn't be
> difficult to implement. Greg or Thomas should comment if they think
> this is a reasonable way to fix the problem.
D'oh!
It looks like phase2 has been adjusted to do this in the dev cell
install location and the master copy in the als locker; thanks for
taking care of it whoever did. Sorry for such an obvious mistake.
;-(
