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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:09:25PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:21:19PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: |
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>> Hi all, I just installed a small system from a running system using |
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>> sys-i686-20010406.tgz |
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>Hey! A www.sistina.com (LVM) person trying Gentoo Linux! Thanks ;) |
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That's right. I am sistina's Senior Sysadmin. :-) |
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>> The first and formost thing I noticed was that syslog spitting out errors |
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>> everytime the logger tries to make an entry (it can't access |
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>> /var/log/syslog.d/ dir) so I change the perms, now it says it can't lock the |
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>> dir. So my syslog is still broken. |
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>Did you extract the tarball using the "p" option? --> |
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Doh! Ooops. |
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># tar xzvpf ... |
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>If not, then tar didn't preserve the literal directory permissions and this |
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>is probably causing some problems for you. |
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I'll try again. |
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>> Next I try to add a user using adduser and that application won't even run, I |
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>> get "PAM authentication failed" I did however change roots password and am |
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>> still able to login. |
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>This is a relatively ancient bug that desperately needs fixing. I'm not sure |
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>exactly why PAM is barfing. If I remember correctly, it can be fixed by zapping |
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>a file in /etc/pam.d. |
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Which one, I'll try using vipw and vigr and try to login but I don't think |
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it'll let me, something in pam's busted for sure. I you can post a fix on the |
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website (A FAQ question?) that would be great. |
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>I agree. One of the downsides of doing a major development project in your |
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>"spare" time is that you are forced to step away from development even when |
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>there are little quirks like this that you know need fixing. However, I don't |
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>think there are any major quirks beyond this one. |
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Well, I rather like the fact that it's mostly hands-on stuff, and if I can get |
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the authentication thing straight I can hack the rest of it. |
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Ports man, I love it. Finally a distro with ports. |
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>Achim didn't include the "vipw" and "vigr" tools in build.tbz2? |
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Didn't try them yet, but on a previous install I used useradd and that worked |
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o.k. but I still couldn't login with the use I added. |
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Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 |
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Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream |
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