Shawn Walker wrote: > Ethan Quach wrote: >> >> >> Sarah Jelinek wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I tried an AI install in which I set a user name, but no >>> corresponding password for that user in my ai sc manifest. It >>> installed and all and rebooted fine. I wasn't able to log in with >>> that user, with the graphical console anyway, with this >>> combination(user, no password set). Is this supposed to be an >>> allowable combination? >> >> I'm guessing you weren't able to login as root in this case either? >> >> I'm thinking we shouldn't create a user at all if a username was >> provided with no userpass. (with the adequate message in the log) > > Forgive me for creating a hypothetical situation, but I could see > someone wanting to create a user with no password, but with a > preinstalled ssh key for authorisation as the only way to login to the > system. well.. we do currently allow for a user name without a password. I can see how it might be useful. The issue is if the user accidentally does this they will not be able to log in to their system if they haven't setup something like a preinstalled ssh key.
> > Cheers,
