On 11/11/2016 15:10, Noam Preil wrote: > 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? >
I think so. "passwd" needs the virtual kernel filesystems to run properly. What you see has nothing to do with cracklib. Regards Pierre -- 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
