Bug 51894

Summary: passwd -d in kickstart %post does not work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3CC: john_hull
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Description Michael E Brown 2001-08-16 16:20:38 UTC 
Description of Problem:
The command, "/usr/bin/passwd -d" in the %post section of kickstart does 
not work.

Examination of STDOUT/STDERR of the kickstart %post contains the msg: 

delete password for root   <--produced by an "echo" immediately preceding 
Changing password for user root
Removing password for user root
passwd: Success

But, upon reboot of the system, the password specified by the "rootpw" 
line in the kickstart file is still in effect.

How Reproducible:
Floppy-based kickstart install

Actual Results:
Password specified by kickstart "rootpw" line is still in effect.

Expected Results:
No password for root.
Comment 1 Michael E Brown 2001-08-16 16:22:13 UTC 
Created attachment 28135 [details]
Kickstart file
Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-08-16 18:57:21 UTC 
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax.
Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-08-16 19:18:52 UTC 
This should be fixed now.  Thanks for your report.