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Gentoo Template Creation; Cannot set password [message #40634]

Wed, 08 September 2010 13:22

HansHalber
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Hi,
I recently created a Gentoo template following the instructions in the wiki: http://wiki.openvz.org/Gentoo_template_creation

When I try setting the password with vzctl, nothing happens.

vzctl set 800 --userpasswd root:secret

There are no changes in either the "passwd" or "shadow" files.

However when I enter the container and set the password with "passwd" there are no problems.

On my centOS container the command is executed correctly:

vzctl set 800 --userpasswd root:secret
"Changing password for user root.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully."

I already double checked the configuration files mentioned in the article and I'm currently out of ideas where to look next.

Kernel: 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.4 x86_64
vzctl-3.0.24.2-1.x86_64

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Re: Gentoo Template Creation; Cannot set password [message #40654 is a reply to message #40634]

Mon, 13 September 2010 13:38

RomanU
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

It's a well known error.
Just replace inside of your Gentoo container a string with 'password' in /etc/pam.d/chpasswd to "password required pam_unix.so md5 shadow"
And you'll get it.

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