Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>
> On 29 Jan 1999, Roger Buck writes:
>
> > Roger Buck wrote:
> > Using RH5.2 with all errata loaded + Linuxconf-1.13r12-1
> >
> > When creating a new user the password does not seem to be entered into
> > the /etc/passwd file. There are simply two exclamation marks inserted
> > "!!"
> >
> >
> Any news on a fix for this?
>
> Not really. Jacques can't reproduce it at all. I can on one system,
> but not at will. My time to work on this is limited for the next few
> days. if you have spare machine(s) and can come up with a way to
> install Linux from scratch and then get to this situation, it would be
> most helpful.
OK - this will take me a couple of days to find time.
> I believe it is not directly and obviously linked in a straightforward
> way to any of: PAM version, shadowed passwords or not. It may be
> linked to exactly what version of Linuxconf one has before 1.13r12,
> this needs further study. It seems that ungrading from 1.12r5 or
> 1.13r8 is safe, upgrade from 1.13r10 is not (or not always?) safe??
>
I have experimented also: I find that once the problem arises then no
matter what version you go back to, everything will work until you
install 1.13r12-1.
If you rpm -e and then re-install any version of Linuxconf, then no
matter which working version you upgrade from, the problem appears as
soon as 1.13r12-1 is installed.
As well as the "!!" in the new password field, I have found that
1.13r12-1 does not update an existing password - everything in the
update procedure looks OK but the old password remains.
I have tried this with and without shadow passwords, plus starting with
clean password files etc.
I have found this same problem on three different machines now (all
RH5.2 with latest ERRATA loaded).
I'll let you know what I find with a clean re-install from RH5.2 CD.
R.
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