On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 12:48:48AM +0200, Tuxicoman wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Severity: normal > >Dear Maintainer, > >I tested Debian testing installer the 4 september 2018 > >At one step, the installer asks for setting the root password. >I pressed Enter, without entering any password, and the installer went to the >next step (creating user accounts) > >I tried to fix this by restarting at a previous step (network configuration) >but the root password step doesn't show anymore. It jumps to user account >creation step directly after network configuration. > >Bugs are : >- maybe empty root password should not be allowed
That's a deliberate choice - see later. >- the root password setting step should be replayable But this is clearly a bug, yes. The code in user-setup-ask has a state machine that doesn't cope with this. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...
