Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:28:46
Message-Id: 200606301222.20984.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS by Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
1 On Friday 30 June 2006 07:49, Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote:
2 > when i'm issue as bellow, that error comming like this,
3 >
4 > suranga@localhost ~ $ su - root
5 > Password:
6 > configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify
7 > administrator)
8 > localhost~
9
10 I think the following three steps should solve it (maybe the third step is
11 sufficient):
12
13 # emerge --sync
14 # emerge -va shadow
15 # etc-update
16
17 Read more at [1].
18
19 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135987
20
21 --
22 Bo Andresen