Hello all, i am very new to the blfs mailinglist and I am doing my first try to build up an own system from scratch. My BLFS shall become a nice little Samba DC in future. So I looked up the samba dependencies in the book and decided to install Linux-PAM-0.80 with cracklib-2.8.3.
Everything seemed to work good and I am quite sure that I did everything like it was described. The only little problem I noticed was that the pam.d directory was not created by the install of pam, so I made it by hand. After the installation of cracklib and pam I wanted to reinstall shadow again, of course. There where no problems during the installation. Afterwards I added the config-scripts like described in the book in the pam.d directory. The login and logout works fine. Also su, useradd, groupadd and all other commands behave normal. The only problem now is passwd: When I want to execute passwd as root I only get the error message: "passwd: critical error -immediate abort" 1. When I comment out the first line of the passwd config in pam.d: #password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 difok=8 minlen=5 dcredit=3 ocredit=3 ucredit=2 lcredit=2 password required pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok as root passwd says "passwd: Authentication information can not be recoverd" 2. When I now delete the "use_authok" parameter in the second line I can use passwd. I hope that somebody here has an idea how to solve this problem. I already googled, but had no success. If you need further informations please ask. I am a noobie and don't know exactly which other logs or informations may can help to find the problem. Many thanks in advance! Schoppe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
