Quoting John Hupp: > > <snip>
> Interesting that you should mention the possibility of things going > pear shaped. > > And I'm not saying they have, but they not have not gone by the book. > > If at a console I log in as root and then run "passwd -d root," the > output is "passwd: password expiry information changed." Not the > output I would have expected. > > If I then run "cat /etc/shadow," the password field is blank and I > can log in at a console as root with no password. > > However, if I run my client shutdown command: "ssh -l root <client > IP> shutdown -h now," it requires a password and only accepts the > presumably-deleted password. > > So it seems that two authentication mechanisms are somehow being > maintained and can develop a split personality. > > I can return to the previously-established root password by logging > in as root with a blank password at a console and running "passwd > root." This heals the split personality, but I'm back where I started. > > A Debian user had the same kind of experience with "passwd -d root" > and found that the problem was that PAM was set to use GNOME Keyring > Daemon instead of Unix Authentication, but he did not say how to > check on or configure that, and I have not been able to figure it > out yet. That post is here: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52216 > > Anyone recognize what's going on? I am not at all certain but unless you also installed your system in some unusual way PAM should be fine and shouldn't be messed with. Again, having said that, the command (as root) that invokes the above mentioned dialog is dpkg-reconfigure libpam-runtime for your own sanity pick cancel on the second window so nothing gets changed!! (Again guessing - I'm no expert!) having changed the password, the graphical environment may need logging out of and restarting in order to get back in sync with the new password. A safer way to test this is simply change the password to something else simple and then see if there is an out of sync condition, if yes, log out and log in with new password and then check - does it still have the split personality? Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
