liveCD default password change?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:06:35PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:25:28AM +0000, Chip Piller wrote:
> > I downloaded the hoary-live-i386.iso for 02-Mar-2005, checked md5sum, burned CD,
> > and booted from CD.  So far so good.
> >   
> > After using the system for a while I selected "Lock Screen" option from the
> > menu.  Now I am unable to log back into my session.  I am the default user
> > ubuntu, and I tried password "ubuntu" but it did not work.  Has the default
> > password changed, and if so to what?
> 
> The default is now a locked password.  It hadn't occurred to me that anyone
> would try to lock the screen on the live CD. :-)  It had a static password
> before, and so this didn't provide any security anyway.
> 
> What should it do if you try?  Activate the (non-locked) screensaver?
> Should we omit the option from the menu entirely?
> 
> Ideally, xscreensaver would notice a locked password and refuse to lock the
> screen, but this may not be feasible.

It sounds much better to warn and refuse to lock the screen on a locked
password than to omit the option from the menu, since an enterprising
user could change the password to something only they knew, at which
point locking the screen would be useful.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]