This is needed to interoperate firstboot and sysusers. The former one is started first, and it writes only /etc/shadow when it is told to set the root password. It's better to relax checks here than to duplicate functionality in firstboot.
This is needed to interoperate firstboot and sysusers. The former one is started first, and it writes only /etc/shadow when it is told to set the root password. It's better to relax checks here than to duplicate functionality in firstboot.