Hi, In chapter 6, I built cracklib and then installed shadow. Everything seemed fine until I entered "passwd root". Rather than asking for input, it just put the following on standard output:
Changing password for root Enter the new password (minimum of 5 characters) Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. Bad password: too short. Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway). passwd: password changed. I tried "passwd" but the same thing happened. I uninstalled cracklib and shadow, rebuilt shadow from scratch (including removing the source and unpacking again), but the same thing happened. I also tried disabling shadow passwords and running it again, but no matter what I did, passwd never asked for input. There were one or two unexpected failures in the gcc test suite, but nothing "vastly different" from the normal results - both were probably a result of the battery hitting critical and hibernating. I am uncertain, but I may have restarted after I started Chapter 6 and forgotten to rerun the "mount" commands. Would that cause this? Help appreciated, pixelherodev -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
