a strange passwd problem with 1.4_rc3 for x86

ryo- · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

Hi all,

Since last friday, this is my third attempt to install gentoo 1.4_rc 3 (x86). I started last friday with the stage 3 tarball (from the ISO image). Everything was ok excepted that when I restart the comp (2 PIII 700Mhz, 512MB, 20GB IDE, CDROM), I wasn't able to login on it after all the step including the LILO install.

The second time, I installed again from stage 3, running before a sshd deamon, but my OpenBSD ssh doesn't want to speak to the gento sshd so I had to use putty and I can't follow the installation as it said remotely that it couldn't find the "emerge", probably because of the distinct chroot.

But now, let's come to the real problem. I installed today Gentoo from the stage 1. Everything was ok for the stage 1, then to the stage 2, and a lot of things of the stage 3 when I wanted to change the root password. The passwd command worked fine but when I tried to use the login on the second console (Alt+F2), it never wanted to log me, saying the login is incorrect.

By the way, I created a second user on the box, using adduser, useradd, changing the password with passwd, or with useradd -p <password>. Everytime, everything seems to be ok. But I wasn't able to connect on the console with always the same error: "login incorrect".

As I'm root, I went into the /etc/shadow and see that the password of the second user was in clear! Ok it's rw only for root. But I think there is a real problem! As I said, all the stage 1, 2 and 3 up to the "passwd" suggestion for root worked perfectly.

I'm quite stopped by now, is there someone with some ideas to prevent it and to go up to the last steps? I don't want to use one day again to pass all the stages! Perhaps I missed something but I don't see what.

Thanks in advance,

ryo-

Woland · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

I am not sure I follow you completely, but does this thread help?

ryo- · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

I think it's an issue like that, but I don't want to leave my chrooted session before I complete the installation, as I saw that I can't recovery the chrooted session from a ssh connection before.

Then... what can I do? To complete the installation in my chrooted session, then leave it, and hoping I can change the root password?

Secondly, I can't understand why the /etc/shadow displays the password of this second user in _clear_ form.

Thirdly, I want to understand why the step 19 doesn't work if I'm still in my chrooted session.

Thanks for your prompt answer,

ryo-

russell · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

I'm having the same problem.

I have no problem logging in as root. But when I create a new user account

useradd russell -m -G users,audio,wheel -s /bin/bash -p mypassword

* I can not login to that account.
* I can su to that user, but I can't change the password once there
* Examining the /etc/shadow file shows that the password is NOT encrypted

I'm also installing 1.4-rc3