Bug 971592

Summary:	Can't login with root after installing and not configuring any other user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	19	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, mleitner, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2013-06-06 21:10:07 UTC

Just installed a F19 guest, with minimal installation.

I was testing screen performance during instalation, and then I set up the root password twice during the installation. And I didn't set up any other user, I wasn't going to use anyway.

But when VM installed, I couldn't login on guest tty console using root. Had to boot with init=/bin/bash.. then I tried re-setting the password, in case the 2nd attempt during install had borked it, but I still couldn't login.

/var/log/secure contains:

Jun  6 20:58:55 localhost sshd[852]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun  6 20:58:55 localhost sshd[852]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Jun  6 20:58:59 localhost unix_chkpwd[911]: check pass; user unknown
Jun  6 20:59:00 localhost unix_chkpwd[912]: check pass; user unknown
Jun  6 20:59:00 localhost unix_chkpwd[912]: password check failed for user (root)
Jun  6 20:59:00 localhost login: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost=  user=root
Jun  6 20:59:02 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR root, Authentication failure
Jun  6 20:59:03 localhost unix_chkpwd[913]: check pass; user unknown
Jun  6 20:59:04 localhost unix_chkpwd[914]: check pass; user unknown
Jun  6 20:59:04 localhost unix_chkpwd[914]: password check failed for user (root)
Jun  6 20:59:07 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM tty1 FOR root, Authentication failure

Not sure what else I can provide. Please let me know.

I'm keeping this guest around a while for your debugging..

Thanks,
Marcelo.

Comment 1 David Shea 2013-08-02 19:21:25 UTC

Marcelo, can you attach any log files you have in /var/log/anaconda? Also, does the root user appear in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? The "check pass; user unknown" lines seem to indicate that the pam module wasn't able to find the root user data.