Re: Trouble with passwd - shadow seems broken...

Thanks Mikko!

The superadduser script did the trick, as for the rest it's still somewhat a 
mystery... :)

Anyway, what is the custom on this list, to send a thankyou-mail to the list, 
the person responding or both? Some lists concider it spam, but at the same 
time rude not to acknowledge the help one gets!

Pontus

On Saturday 05 October 2002 14.33, Mikko Moilanen wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:39:50 +0200
>
> Pontus Edvardsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When waking up today my very first Gentoo was ready! :)
>
> Kongratulations.
>
> > Q1: When adding a new user, my shadow (I suppose Gentoo uses this by
> > default) don't seem to be updated. When using KUser, and exit it I get a
> > lot of pop-ups about no shadow entry for the users defined. Using passed
> > to change password, I'm told the user does not exist?! I've never had
> > these kind of troubles before and would appriciate some help...
>
> Maybe you should try emergin "superadduser" and then use from the
> commandline "superadduser Boo".
>
> Gentoo uses PAM (pluggable authentication module) by default (Im not sure
> for this).
>
> > Q2: When installing applications not in the Portage tree... How would one
> > do? As usual, dl, unpack, ./configure, make, make install ? I'm grasping
> > some kind of connection, it beeing scource and this distro is entirely
> > sourcebased. Is there any way of managing "external" applications, for
> > example Opera?
>
> If there is ebuild for software, then Gentoo will handle it. There is ways
> to handle programs by self, but I am not the right person to tell them
> about.
>
> > Q3: After bootstrapping, I was told "1 config file needs updating in
> > /ETC" or similar. I read the 'emerge --help config' which said to look
> > for renamed copies of the file needed attention. I did not find any such
> > though. Only curious file was .pwd.lock which I suppose should be there?
>
> Maybe you should try emerge "gentoolkit" if it is not installed and type
> "etc-update".
>
> > Q4: Having the CONFIG_PROTECT set, is it possible to manually modify
> > config files?
>
> Yes. Above parameter allows you to choose, which directories are protected
> from file overwritings which sometimes happen when upgrading or
> re-compiling.