Automattic / Automattic/biab-installer

Setup fails to transfer passwords (under linux)

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Description

When i use the blog in a box installer on my linux machine, it finishes with the message "Please re-insert your SD card" -- I never took it out or unmounted it our something else. The resultine image on the sd card works, but all the passwords are wrong. I can't login into wordpress or via ssh. It doesn't matter if I use the passwords the installer generated, or if I replace those with "my" password.

I get these results on my linux box with an up to date arch linux (I downloaded blog-in-a-box-1.0.10.tar.gz, unpacked the archive and simply started the blog-in-a-box binary) and with a virtual machine with Ubuntu 16.10 where I installed the programm via the provided deb file). I don't get any messages inside the terminal for debugging, other than...

```
./blog-in-a-box
[23:02:00:0260] [info] Opening file:///tmp/blog-in-a-box-1.0.10/resources/app.asar/gui/../index.html
```
The message on the screen looks like this. After this I have to force quit the application.

![bloginabox-setup-arch](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1716643/24020597/1fe4e86e-0a9d-11e7-961a-4118e0366a94.png)

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Research direction

Reproduce the setup with the blog-in-a-box-1.0.10 binary or provided deb file on Arch Linux or Ubuntu 16.10, and observe the “Please re-insert your SD card” step. Investigate why the resulting image contains unusable WordPress and SSH passwords; done means setup completes without forcing the application to quit and both login methods accept the generated or replacement passwords.

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Assessment

Tech stack
electron, javascript, linux, wordpress
Domain
authentication, desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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