Gottfried,
On 2/19/26 14:51, gfp wrote:
...
For me there are never simple questions,
I am happy for every answer
as a log level Guixer
Sometimes simple questions help a lot
There a some non-guix specific things you can do to troubleshoot this
and then hopefully once you find the issue can determine how to fix the
guix way.
1) Verify the gast account is in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Note while
it is fine to email the contents of the passwd file you do not want to
email the contents of your shadow file. The shadow file contains the
salted and hashed copy of your passwords and depending on the algorithm
used (e.g. the crypt used in your earlier email) to generate the hash
they can be broken via rainbow tables and brute force methods and even
if the algorithm is secure today it may not be secure tomorrow.
2) Unless there is a guix specific use case I am unaware of a .passwd
file in a users home directory will not have any affect on user login
/home/gfp/.passwd:
3) Make sure the group (998) for the gast user in the passwd file you
pasted exists in /etc/group
4) Make sure you can switch to the gast user from root with 'sudo su -l
-u gast'. This will verify that everything about the account is good
except the password.
5) Try to login with the gast account noting the time and then look at
the lines at that time in files
- /var/log/secure
- /var/log/messages
In particular the one in /var/log/secure should give the exact reason
you why gast is not being able to login.
Good luck,
W
