Bug 10710

Summary:	make it be able to login as root by default when debug-tweaks is not set
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	2.3
Target Milestone:	2.3 M2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Robert Yang 2016-11-23 02:35:36 UTC

Currently, if debug-tweaks is not in IMAGE_FEATURES, we can't login as root, and there is no other users to login by default. Set a default passwd (such as root) can fix the problem.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2016-12-01 15:59:38 UTC

I (and various others in the triage call) strongly believe we should not set a default root password. This could potentially be a huge security problem. As such we considered marking this bug as WONTFIX. I can see the case for improving the documentation about this and showing the user how they can set a default password should they wish to.

Comment 2 Robert Yang 2017-02-06 09:53:10 UTC

Please see RP's comments.