Bug 2142820

Summary:	Don't request a root password when entering switch_root prompt
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Renaud Métrich <rmetrich>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9.0	CC:	dtardon
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Description Renaud Métrich 2022-11-15 11:02:46 UTC

Description of problem:

With RHEL9, due to the rebase to dracut-055, the root password is requested when booting with rd.break, unless root password is locked/disabled.

This is an issue because it makes the maintenance/troubleshooting become harder in case the root password is either lost or not in sync with the initramfs (typical use case root password was changed but initramfs not rebuilt).

IMHO this feature is more annoying than useful knowing that it doesn't provide any additional security and just makes it more difficult to recover the system.

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

dracut-055-45.git20220404.el9_0.x86_64

How reproducible:

N/A

Comment 1 David Tardon 2022-11-15 14:43:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2057365 ***