Re: passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread lanas
Le Samedi, 23 Février 2008 18:57:09 +0100, Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > You may try > > echo "root:newpasswd" | chpasswd > > when you are in the chroot environment. This sets the password to > "newpasswd" for user root. Although this does not solve the problem, it is a han

Re: passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread lanas
Le Samedi, 23 Février 2008 09:58:07 -0800, "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >> I chroot into the freshly-built LFS system and then I issue the >> 'passwd' command. But then all of the lines below appears as if I >> typed something and then passwd exits. > I think this comes down

Re: passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 18:42:42 schrieb lanas: > Hello, > > There's an uncommon problem with trying to modify the root password at > the end of building a LFS 6.3 system. I'm sure this does not pertain > to LFS and something must be not quite right. I've never seen this > before. > > Th

Re: passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:42 AM, lanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > There's an uncommon problem with trying to modify the root password at > the end of building a LFS 6.3 system. I'm sure this does not pertain > to LFS and something must be not quite right. I've never seen this >

passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread lanas
Hello, There's an uncommon problem with trying to modify the root password at the end of building a LFS 6.3 system. I'm sure this does not pertain to LFS and something must be not quite right. I've never seen this before. The passwd and shadow files are as per the book, and the pwconv and g