diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
index 317a0712aa..0eb4057209 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "An image used during oe-selftest tests"
 
 # libudev is needed for deploy mdadm via devtool
 IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot packagegroup-core-ssh-dropbear libudev"
-IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
+IMAGE_FEATURES = "allow-empty-password empty-root-password allow-root-login"
 
 IMAGE_LINGUAS = " "