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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 25.07.2014, 07:41 -0700 schrieb Nathan Haines:
> On 07/25/2014 07:40 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
> > OK, this change landed!  Next image will have a blank password for the
> > phablet user, though you can use 'passwd' to set a new one if you like.
> >   Note that sudo should still work with a blank password.
> 
> Now the exciting question is:
> 
> Does the existing phablet user password change during an upgrade if the 
> user has never modified it from the default?

we switched to libnss-extrausers (for non system users only atm), so
that means you will most likely end up with an empty password after the
upgrade since /etc/passwd|group|shadow are not used for the phablet user
anymore.

(there is more lockdown work ahead too btw)

ciao
	oli

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