BUG Cloud At Cost Password Bug

[wardmundy]

Just a heads up that the Cloud at Cost password bug has reappeared. For those that missed it the last time around, if you reset your root password using the passwd command, your server reverts to its system-assigned root password whenever you reboot. Here's the recommended fix:

sed -i '/exit 0/d' /etc/rc.local
killall plymouthd
echo killall plymouthd >> /etc/rc.local
rm -f /etc/rc3.d/S97*
echo "exit 0" >> /etc/rc.local

 

[hecatae]

but if it's by design, how can it be a bug?

 

[wardmundy]

Seems like the only possible explanation for reimplementing this is to give them a backdoor into people's servers.

 

[dziny]

Not seeing this on my debian server. No such process running. Is this CentOS only "feature"?