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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35996@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35996: User account password got locked when booting old generation
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:05:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ea6l1on.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190529204517.mqn5xrw23xib4i3u@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Wed, 29 May 2019 22:45:17 +0200")

Hello,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> After I reconfigured to a broken, unbootable generation and then
> rebooted to an old working generation, I found my user account
> password was locked.  This was my /etc/shadow:
>
> root::18045::::::
> florian:!:18045::::::
> nobody:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder01:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder02:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder03:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder04:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder05:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder06:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder07:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder08:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder09:!:18045::::::
> guixbuilder10:!:18045::::::
> ntpd:!:18045::::::
> messagebus:!:18045::::::
> polkitd:!:18045::::::
> geoclue:!:18045::::::
> colord:!:18045::::::
> avahi:!:18045::::::
> gdm:!:18045::::::
> httpd:!:18045::::::
>
> Logging in as root (root had an empty password before as well) and
> running `passwd florian` fixed it, and I *cannot* reproduce the bug
> anymore by booting the broken generation again, i.e. my password
> remains set now.

Did the old generation you booted have user ‘florian’?

Also, how old was it?  User account management changed in March (commit
0ae735bcc8ff7fdc89d67b492bdee9091ee19e86).

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-31 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29 20:45 bug#35996: User account password got locked when booting old generation pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-31 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-06-01  5:52   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-01 14:58     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-01 21:37       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-02  7:05         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-02  9:38           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-02 10:21             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-02 16:00               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03  6:03                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-03  6:14                   ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-06-03  7:18                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-03 15:22                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03 17:07                       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-03 13:22                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03 14:52                     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-04  9:22                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-04 12:17                         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-04 14:12                           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-04 17:17                             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-04 21:21                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-05  6:16                                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-05  9:54                                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-05 11:06                                     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-05 21:13                                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06  7:01                                         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-06  8:04                                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-03 16:01                     ` Danny Milosavljevic

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