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* [gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS
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@ 2006-06-30  5:49 ` Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
  2006-06-30 10:22   ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi @ 2006-06-30  5:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi <kasthuriarachchi@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: GETPASS_ASTERISKS
To: gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org

Dear all,

when i'm issue as bellow, that error comming like this,

suranga@localhost ~ $ su - root
Password:
configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify
administrator)
localhost~

Please help me on this matter,

Suranga Kasthuriarachchi

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS
  2006-06-30  5:49 ` [gentoo-user] Fwd: GETPASS_ASTERISKS Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
@ 2006-06-30 10:22   ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen @ 2006-06-30 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Friday 30 June 2006 07:49, Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote:
> when i'm issue as bellow, that error comming like this,
>
> suranga@localhost ~ $ su - root
> Password:
> configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify
> administrator)
> localhost~

I think the following three steps should solve it (maybe the third step is 
sufficient):

# emerge --sync
# emerge -va shadow
# etc-update

Read more at [1].

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135987

-- 
Bo Andresen

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