Alessandro Corbelli wrote on 06-02-08 10:29: > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 10.57 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: >> I had a look at the shadow source, and it seems that the messages for >> "New password: " and "Re-enter new password: " are not making it to >> the screen. These should be printed when calling the function >> getpass(). Reading the getpass(3) manpage, it seems that /dev/tty is >> used for sending the messages and receiving the password. Do you have >> the /dev/tty device? Can you show the permissions? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 5 feb 19:17 /dev/tty > > > > man pages not working again... > exit code 256 > > I think jhalfs or LFS 6.3 are full of bugs.....
That /dev/tty is NOT a character special! bjd -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
