root password visible at emergency console

Ubuntu 7.04 latest updates.

This is true however, you have to have changed the root password to something. By default the root user has no password so would be auto logged in.

Interestingly, when you boot into to recovery mode and enter the root password nothing is shown. I believe the emergency console should behave the same way.

Tentatively a sulogin problem when running under upstart; I take a peek at this.

Confirmed. It only happens when booting with usplash (that's why it does not happen when you boot rescue mode). For reproducing it is enough to enable SULOGIN in /etc/default/rcS and boot with splash enabled.

For the record, all the tcsetattr() flags are exactly the same when booting with or without usplash.

<mjg59> Does it happen if you boot with vga=791?
<pitti> let me try
<pitti> yes, it does
<mjg59> Ok. So it's somewhere in the core code
<mjg59> Not svgalib
<mjg59> That makes life easier

Bug 58503 might be related, this needs to be checked.

This seems to have been fixed with all the usplash fixes that went into Hardy. I also just verified that it did not get unfixed again with the usplash fsck fixes I did for bug 209416.

Whoops, sorry. While it does work correctly now with fsck, it still happens when enabling SULOGIN in /etc/default/rcS. This is a less concerning issue, though.

Still an issue on my Intrepid laptop, when enabling SULOGIN in /etc/default/rcS. Which "usplash fixes that ... went into Hardy" fixed this? Presumably, we need to move that code to just before sulogin runs, instead of merely before fsck runs?

Martin, this is a really odd bug. lsof on the sulogin shell shows it has /dev/console open, but it's a deleted file. I suspect that either usplash or upstart is closing /dev/tty8 after sulogin has started, and resetting the tc flags. I suspect this may also be causing bug 55159.