Bug 2824

Summary:	Installer echos root password to screen
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	peter
Component:	installer	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	peter
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	1999-05-14 20:25:05 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description peter 1999-05-14 17:54:55 UTC

While installing RedHat 6.0 on an i386 platform, when I
entered the root password on the next screen I had the
message
     ERROR "echo [root password]"
where [root password] was indeed the root password I
had just entered.  I do have a ";" (semi-colon) as one
character of the password, so I suspect a script confused
that for an end of a command.

The installation was based on the 6.0 release dated
4-19-1999

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-05-14 20:25:59 UTC

I was unable to replicate this problem using the final release of Red
Hat 6.0. I included a semi-colon in the password as instructed. It was
written to the disk correctly and was verified to work upon reboot.