[gentoo-dev] useradd q

[gentoo-dev] useradd q

[Dave Bresson]

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,


dave

Re: [gentoo-dev] useradd q

[Achim Gottinger]

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~

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[gentoo-dev] portage question

[John McCaskey]

Ok this is a totally lame question. ;)  I have everything working alright
now thanks to the answers on the hde and hdg.  However I don't really know
anything about portage and I was wondering if there is a website with some
general info on it like the main site for it or such, or anything else that
would be helpful.  I tried to search for it on the web but failed to find
anything.  So if anyone can point me to something about it that would be
appreciated.  Thanks.

John McCaskey