Bug 1041405

Summary:	able to change root password and other settings after it's been set in kickstart
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Ross Smith <rjsm>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	baumanmo, clumens, howey.vernon, lkardos, mbanas, rrajaram, walteste
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	anaconda-19.31.55-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-06-13 09:44:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	860099, 1044717

Description Ross Smith 2013-12-12 15:59:33 UTC

Description of problem:
If you provide a kickstart file that sets the root password and uses the graphical installer the set root password is modifiable during package installation.  This poses a security risk for unattended installs of desktop machines. It would be great to be able to set options immutable if they're set in a kickstart.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install rhel7b1 system using a kickstart that sets the root password
2. While packages are installing, click the root password box
3. It allows the password to be changed


Actual results:
root password is able to change the password. 

Expected results:
Install doesn't allow root password or other setttings to be changed if they're set in kickstart.

Additional info:

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2014-01-15 19:14:12 UTC

We discussed this briefly in today's team meeting.

Comment 5 Ľuboš Kardoš 2014-02-05 12:46:00 UTC

Verified on anaconda-19.31.56-1 (RHEL-7.0-20140205.n.0) but there is still problem with USER CREATION spoke. It is possible to modify user settings during kickstart installation. This is described in another bug (bug 1058564).

Comment 6 Chris Lumens 2014-02-07 16:41:01 UTC

Note:  As part of the fix for bug 1058564, the progress hub looks pretty weird if both the root password and user creation spokes are simply gone.  Thus, I'm changing the fix for this bug to still display the spoke, but make it so you cannot click on it.  That should still satisfy both requests while not giving the user a largely blank page.

Comment 7 Moritz Baumann 2014-04-24 08:50:51 UTC

since I cannot access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058564

in RHEL7 RC doing a kickstart install one cannot modify the root account but it is still possible to create a local user and make it administrator.

Is this going to be fixed in final?

Comment 8 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:44:48 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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