From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
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: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 08:14:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=piJkUZzjhFkF6OEtTBd6WKY5UusvviWZJ31kY3pFRfu5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190603060301.2nu2zqi5j3v3j5ki@pelzflorian.localdomain>
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Hello,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> ezt írta (időpont:
2019. jún. 3., Hét 8:04):
> After I booted to a Guix install USB, chrooted as described on the
> Arch wiki and started a Guix daemon, I could reconfigure as before.
> There was no need to fiddle with grub-install.
>
> After multiple reconfigures, it happened again, my /etc/shadow has !
> again in the password field. My recently changed root password became
> empty as well, like 35902. I did not even run sudo concurrently. The
> password just got locked.
>
This is the same thing that happened to me, and there is another report,
regarding passwords being reset. I believe we should merge these two bugs.
I am on a mobile with no convinient way to look up the issue number.
>
> The /etc from the “populating from /gnu/store/*-etc” messages has no
> significant differences either.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> > > AccountsService appears to only be usable for reading /etc/shadow, not
> > > for writing it, contrary to what the Guix manual claims (??).
> >
> > That might be a bug.
> >
>
> AccountsService obviously can change passwords. No bug here. Sorry.
> I was confused.
>
>
> > > For writing passwords, gnome-control-center does not use
> > > AccountsService, it calls /usr/bin/passwd directly in its source code
> > > in panels/user-accounts/run-passwd.c.
> >
> > That’s definitely a bug to fix: it should invoke
> > /run/setuid-programs/passwd instead.
> >
>
> Find attached two patches that fix GNOME password changing. Both are
> required.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
On my machine it turned out that the hdd is faulty, so this might be a
hardware error, I will get a replacement drive tomorrow, and check if the
problem still persist.
Best regards,
g_bor
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-03 6:22 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
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 [this message]
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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