Posted 29 January 2014 - 15:53
@antoine3_dupres:
What exactly do you want to know? Is passwd working? Yes, on non-compromised boxes, it is working, it sets password for root, and that password is required on next telnet session. And yes, I can see x in my /etc/password file. Is this not working as expected for you? Well, have you followed all the advices users gave you in this thread?
Posted 29 January 2014 - 16:53
What I had asked was:
- have you edited your /etc/passwd and removed the x
- run the command passwd
- checked that the password has been changed AND that the x is added in the /etc/passwd !!!!!
Looks like I am not the only one who had this issue (see other post on this forum http://openpli.org/f...ot-doesnt-work/ )
What I suspect has happened on my box:
- I upgraded it to version 4.
- I have set the passwd of root .....But as the x was not added!!!!
Can you try please?
Thanks.
Edited by antoine3_dupres, 29 January 2014 - 16:55.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 17:00
You mean your entry in /etc/passwd is "root::0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh" ?
Then when you telnet to the box no password is asked for the root user.
No, it contains (password string modified 
):
root:$1$VGQkvRXz$w/PaaXPaFHsEaEERuNtTcEZ0:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh
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Posted 29 January 2014 - 17:04
my /etc/passwd contains "root:x:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh"
and my /etc/shadow contains "root:3UyCYewCWvYsd:16099:0:99999:7:::" (password string modified ):
Posted 29 January 2014 - 17:08
So the question is really:
"if the use of /etc/shadow is not enabled for an account, why does passwd not automatically enable it"?
I think that is not a feature of passwd. Either it is enabled (with the 'x'), and passwd will store the new password in /etc/shadow, or it isn't, in which case the password is stored in /etc/passwd, like in my case.
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Posted 29 January 2014 - 17:18
My passwd command is a soft link:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 4 07:49 /usr/bin/passwd -> /usr/bin/passwd.shadow
So during install of Pli this option was activated by default I suspect?
The behavior that I am noticing is that if there is no x in the /etc/passwd, then the command passwd.shadow changes the password in the /etc/shadow (it really does, I see it with the date and the content) but it will not add the x in /etc/passwd!!!!!
Not too sure if somebody can validate that?
Posted 29 January 2014 - 18:29
Yes, that option is by default on, on duo2 at least.
Yes, I can confirm, that when I remove x-es from /etc/passwd, passwd command does not restore them and you can log in without password. And after restoring x-es, I have to log in with password, but with that new one.
So it is like passwd.shadow does not validate /etc/passwd file.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 18:58
Posted 21 November 2015 - 00:32
Just to be clear if anybody else finds this thread and have the same problem.
The command in telnet is "passwd root"
NOT just "passwd"
if you type "passwd" you will set a password but you set it to ?
"passwd root" will set a password to root.
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Posted 21 November 2015 - 00:34
if you type "passwd" you will set a password but you set it to ?
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Posted 21 November 2015 - 12:12
which is "root"?
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Posted 22 November 2015 - 15:04
which is "root"?
Ok. maby it is, but it does not work.
You have to write "passwd root"
Posted 22 November 2015 - 17:29
Never had to do that. Ever. And I don't have any problems with setting a password.
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Posted 22 November 2015 - 23:49
Never had to do that. Ever. And I don't have any problems with setting a password.
Ok. Good for you. I tried several times with command "passwd"
and It did indeed say it changed password,
But you could connect ftp and telnet without it.
Once I tried "passwd root" everything worked great.
If anyone have the same problem, try like I did.
Just wanted to write that in this thread if anyone else finds it like I did.
Posted 23 November 2015 - 01:06
What you have is not normal.
And it doesn't normally happen with an OpenPLi image. So what are you running, on which box, and what has changed on it with regards to a standard image?
It if is a problem it needs to be fixed, not worked around.
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Posted 24 November 2015 - 23:24
What you have is not normal.
And it doesn't normally happen with an OpenPLi image. So what are you running, on which box, and what has changed on it with regards to a standard image?
It if is a problem it needs to be fixed, not worked around
This is th Image I am runing
OpenPLi-4.0-beta-dm800 SSL #84d dailybuild by gjstroomit is patched to work with DM800.
maby that is why it is not working.
I do not really care as it is working with "passwd root"
which does the exact same thing or is it a difference???
Posted 24 November 2015 - 23:42
Perhaps you should ask this gjstroom for support? We haven't made that image, so no clue what it does or doesn't do...
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 23:47
Perhaps you should ask this gjstroom for support? We haven't made that image, so no clue what it does or doesn't do...
Have already done 
I just wrote it here because it seems to be the exact same thing as the threadstarter had problem with.
Exactly the same about the X not beeing there and things like that.
Anyways everything is great now. over and out
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