From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14NpK1-0005Ip-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:56:46 -0700 Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.com by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14NpKT-0005Vy-00; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:57:13 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.145]) by fwd02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14NpKK-1C4kqmC; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:57:04 +0100 Received: (qmail 10414 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 2001 07:38:20 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 31 Jan 2001 07:38:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3A779488.A661FF3E@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useradd q References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jan 30 21:57:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:28:56 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: e4c38491-8cee-45b3-aae9-69303deb0837 X-Archives-Hash: d097240136bc399f5015838f8f41947d Dave Bresson wrote: > Ok, quick question. After getting everything running and what not on my > new rc4_pre2 machine, i'm starting to customize everything to my liking. > I'd like to be able to create my own non-root account (for obvious > reasons) however i'm getting an error with adduser like so "PAM > authentication failed". This comes after typing in the password for my > new account i'm trying to create. Surely there must be some PAM setting > which is wrong by default or something, since you should be able to create > a new account without too much fuss. Or perhaps there is some new tool > for creating new accounts i don't know about, as i'm still acclimating to > my new gentoo environs. Could anyone shine some light on this problem? > > thanks, Make /etc/pam.d/useradd as follows: --------------- auth required pam_rootok.so account required pam_pwdb.so session required pam_pwdb.so -------------- copy this to /etc/pam.d/shadow and things should work better you still get a warning like useradd: PAM chauthok failed. I will look into this a little deeper achim~ > > > dave > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev