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There are a lot of edge cases that the current implementation doesn't handle, especially in cases where one of passwd/shadow exists and the other doesn't exist. For example, if --root-password is specified, we will write /etc/shadow but won't add a root entry to /etc/passwd if there is none. To fix some of these issues, we constrain systemd-firstboot to only modify /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow if both do not exist already (or --force) is specified. On top of that, we calculate all necessary information for both passwd and shadow upfront so we can take it all into account when writing the actual files. If no root password options are given --force is specified or both files do not exist, we lock the root account for security purposes.
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