Well, I have the answer to my own problem: sysvinit 2.82 is either broken or
changed in some way. I can't find anything in the changelog with
significance to the problem, but sysvinit 2.78 works fine.
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 02:04 pm, you wrote:
> I'm attempting to go through the BYOlinux.org tutorial, and I've hit a
> block with sulogin and /etc/passwd. I copied the passwd and group from my
> existing system (with a changed root password) after disabling shadow, and
> got these:
>
> /etc/passwd:
> root:$1$OHnlSueK$mktz9oz1VEGSa4nXd5Cs50:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>
> /etc/group:
> root::0:root
>
> When I try to boot the setup, sulogin gives me an error saying it cannot
> open the password database. I got the above files from a RedHat 7.1
> distro, could it maybe use md5 or some other crypto method? Just for
> reference, the password contained in the above string is simply "foo".
> Sulogin is from sysvinit 2.82 distribution, which I compiled statically.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick Lang
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