Unsetting the root password

Due to changes in the filesystem package [1] the current /etc/passwd
does not allow login without an empty root password anymore.
This becomes apparent, when switching to another TTY than the one
autologin is activated for.

By running passwd -d root we unset the password.
In the future this should go to a custom /etc/passwd file.

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/filesystem&id=0320c909f3867d47576083e853543bab1705185b

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configs/releng/airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh b/configs/releng/airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
index bf5210c..5a732c8 100755
--- a/configs/releng/airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
+++ b/configs/releng/airootfs/root/customize_airootfs.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
 usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh root
 cp -aT /etc/skel/ /root/
 chmod 700 /root
+# unset the root password
+passwd -d root
 
 sed -i 's/#\(PermitRootLogin \).\+/\1yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist