Hello,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jún. 3., Hét 8:04): > After I booted to a Guix install USB, chrooted as described on the > Arch wiki and started a Guix daemon, I could reconfigure as before. > There was no need to fiddle with grub-install. > > After multiple reconfigures, it happened again, my /etc/shadow has ! > again in the password field. My recently changed root password became > empty as well, like 35902. I did not even run sudo concurrently. The > password just got locked. > This is the same thing that happened to me, and there is another report, regarding passwords being reset. I believe we should merge these two bugs. I am on a mobile with no convinient way to look up the issue number. > > The /etc from the “populating from /gnu/store/*-etc” messages has no > significant differences either. > > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> skribis: > > > AccountsService appears to only be usable for reading /etc/shadow, not > > > for writing it, contrary to what the Guix manual claims (??). > > > > That might be a bug. > > > > AccountsService obviously can change passwords. No bug here. Sorry. > I was confused. > > > > > For writing passwords, gnome-control-center does not use > > > AccountsService, it calls /usr/bin/passwd directly in its source code > > > in panels/user-accounts/run-passwd.c. > > > > That’s definitely a bug to fix: it should invoke > > /run/setuid-programs/passwd instead. > > > > Find attached two patches that fix GNOME password changing. Both are > required. > > Regards, > Florian > On my machine it turned out that the hdd is faulty, so this might be a hardware error, I will get a replacement drive tomorrow, and check if the problem still persist. Best regards, g_bor >
