My installs root password is auto-scrambled

[njcwotx]

Hi, I used 2 live cd's recently to use tar/ssh combo to clone a system. After I was done, I now get my new box'es root password autoscrambled every time I boot. I am no longer bootingup with the live cd, but my system insists on auto-scrambling my root every time! This is on the /dev/sda disk, not the live cd. Im puzzled as to how to stop this.
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[njcwotx]

autofonfig somehow got enabled at boot up, which called pwgen. I stopped them from rc-update and no longer does my root pw get recycled each boot.
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[NathanZachary]

Did you actually set your root password before restarting the system after installation?
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[njcwotx]

It was a mistake when I copied the files from the original drive to a destination drive using a live CD on both ends.

I had used 2 live cd's and imaged over the wire. At some point I moved files from the /etc on the live cd over to the destination drive, not from the image. I realized this and then copied all the files from the original disk, but did not wipe and start over the destination drive. As a result, several files not existing on the original disk were now added to the destination. Including autoconfig and pwgen. So when I tried to boot up my new drive I inadvertently had a few configs left over from the live CD copy and this caused me to get a MOTD from the live CD and my root pw would scramble!

After removing the autoconfig service and fixing my motd the host came up. I imagine there are other files that are there too, but the system actually works now. The cool part was it was just a test scenario to see if I could image a physical box into a vmware ESX host via live CD's. We have one prod server that wont image using normal tools such as vmware converter or acronis. Other gentoo hosts went fine, but this server was an old host and there was a snafu in the mirror set and drive geometry on the pysical box that causes problems.
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