Password not being set right

15 Oct 2004

      I've got an issue where my password for root isn't being set right.  Or 
at all for that matter.  My autoinstall file has the following 
sections:

    <security>
      reboot
      /usr/lib/cracklib_dict
      no
      no
      no
      yes
      3
      yes
      60000
      101
      all
      yes
      yes
      99999
      12
      0
      5
      7
      md5
      yes
      secure
      nobody
      60000
      100
    </security>

    <users config:type="list">
      <user>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <username>root</username>

$1$QyzzjhWY$/wFY11PqReGKyxDSydLgh.
        <forename></forename>
        <surname></surname>
      </user>
    </users>

However once my system installs, root has NO password.  And furthermore, 
if I run yast2 on the installed system, it would appear that the 
password encription is set to DES rather than MD5.  Is this just flatly 
ignored, and since my password is too long for DES I get no password 
instead?  Please help me to understand what is going on here.

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE
Pogo Linux -- Linux Systems Engineer
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