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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:
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).
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.
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?
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.
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