Bug 1216762

Summary: [doc] Issue in "ATTRIBUTE, VALUES, DESCRIPTION"
Product: [openSUSE] PUBLIC SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 Reporter: Brian Rackliffe <brian.rackliffe>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Jana Halackova <jsindelarova>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Frank Sundermeyer <fs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jjindrak
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard: https://jira.suse.com/browse/DOCTEAM-1137
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Description Brian Rackliffe 2023-10-31 17:44:02 UTC 
ATTRIBUTE, VALUES, DESCRIPTION:

https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP5/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#id-1.7.5.2.35.3.10

The "user_password" section has the following text:

> With encrypted passwords disabled, if you enter an exclamation mark (!), a random password will be generated.

But that is not correct. Random passwords are not generated. We discussed this issue in a bug: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215215

The recommendation is to remove the quoted line above from our documentation.

The same line exists in the documentation for all our our currently supported versions of SLES, and it should be removed from each, as none of them generate random passwords:

> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP2/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP3/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users
> https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP5/single-html/SLES-autoyast/#Configuration-Security-users


Let me know if anything further is needed.

Thanks!
Comment 1 Jaroslav Jindrak 2023-10-31 21:58:08 UTC 
(In reply to Brian Rackliffe from comment #0)
> But that is not correct. Random passwords are not generated. We discussed
> this issue in a bug: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215215

I think that should be bug 1216518.
Comment 2 Brian Rackliffe 2023-10-31 22:01:59 UTC 
(In reply to Jaroslav Jindrak from comment #1)
> (In reply to Brian Rackliffe from comment #0)
> > But that is not correct. Random passwords are not generated. We discussed
> > this issue in a bug: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215215
> 
> I think that should be bug 1216518.

Oops, thanks for the correction. I had the other bug up in a separate tab and didn't realize I copied the wrong one.
Comment 3 Tomáš Bažant 2023-11-01 09:50:37 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this bug!
It is being tracked and processed as part of our queue.
Comment 4 Jana Halackova 2023-11-06 08:34:22 UTC 
Fixed by https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/pull/1612.