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| author | Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> | 2024-08-09 14:48:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> | 2024-08-09 14:53:14 +0200 |
| commit | e4ecc7f745c54a765eff8eff59fc2e9a03371f2e (patch) | |
| tree | 65fc0db4ba5909b11e44b13e3660c254eee2f652 /bin/debvm-create | |
| parent | 90fc08dcfc714b19c28721109fb26f682ee7a834 (diff) | |
| download | debvm-e4ecc7f745c54a765eff8eff59fc2e9a03371f2e.tar.gz | |
debvm-create: avoid using passwd --delete
passwd will chroot() into the target tree and then load shared
libraries. This tends to work badly for old releases and for foreign
architectures or combinations thereof. As a result, it sometimes fails
with
Cannot determine your user name.
In practice, it removes a single asterisk from the first line of
/etc/shadow (at least for jessie to trixie). This is something, we can
also do via sed.
Reported-by: Sylvain Beucler <beuc@debian.org>
Fixes: d2d8b9965d39 ("debvm-create: avoid failing when we install no passwd")
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/debvm-create')
| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/debvm-create | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/debvm-create b/bin/debvm-create index 0fffd70..eecc803 100755 --- a/bin/debvm-create +++ b/bin/debvm-create @@ -356,7 +356,9 @@ set -- \ "$@" # allow password-less root login -set -- '--customize-hook=passwd --root "$1" --delete root' "$@" +# We would like to use passwd --root "$1" --delete here, but uses chroot() and +# then attempts to load shared libraries, which is doomed in the foreign case. +set -- '--customize-hook=sed -i -e "1s/^root:\\*:/root::/" "$1/etc/shadow"' "$@" if test "$INITSYSTEM" = systemd && ! check_skip systemdnetwork; then # dhcp on all network interfaces, and add a dns resolver |