On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch> wrote:

> On 09/14/2016 06:06 AM, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Rob <captinlo...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:captinlo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Building LFS-7.10-Systemd
>>     I installed linux-pam, reinstalled shadow, reinstalled systemd.
>>     However, I must have missed a step somewhere, because it won't
>>      let me log in when I reboot.
>>     I fired up my rescue system, chrooted into the LFS one. As root
>>     "passwd"
>>     , and got this:
>>     "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error"
>>     "passwd: password unchanged"
>>     What did I miss?
>>     --
>>
>
>
> As far as I remember this happens when there is no /etc/shadow. The
> problem is that, at least with DESTDIR installs, /etc/shadow is not created
> by any package. It has nothing to do with systemd, I had this on a normal
> system as well.
>
> Cheers
> Tim
>
>
You'll need to run "pwconv" and "grpconv" in the Shadow page in LFS in
order to get the /etc/shadow file. Just figured that out from DJ.

That is init system agnostic.

Douglas R. Reno
--LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer
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