[opensuse] Can't login after lock
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3 I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild Reed Organ Society Member St. Louis, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 9+ years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow
Not good. I had no problems with laptop, and on desktop screen saver locking is disabled. See this bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404373 can you check is it happening with particular screensaver? -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:43 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow
Not good.
I had no problems with laptop, and on desktop screen saver locking is disabled.
See this bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404373 can you check is it happening with particular screensaver?
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
Wouldn't 755 be better? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 July 2008 09:49:37 pm Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:43 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
What is the error message?
To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow
Not good. ... Wouldn't 755 be better?
Not really. 755 is -rwxr-xr-x but file is not executable. It is a password file. The max it should have is 644 -rw-r--r-- and it should work if permissions are messed up and some service has to access it that is not in group shadow, but allowing last r means that anybody can read that file and that is absolutely not good. # l /etc/shadow -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 859 Jun 27 20:08 /etc/shadow This is 640 as a number. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008 09:49:37 pm Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:43 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
What is the error message?
"permissions on the password database may be too restrictive" -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild Reed Organ Society Member St. Louis, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 9+ years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 July 2008 11:20:01 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
What is the error message?
"permissions on the password database may be too restrictive"
That is the same as in bug report mentioned in another post. I would open YOU (YaST Online Updates) and update the system. Change permissions of /etc/shadow back to original 640 and check how it works. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow
Finally this seems to be the right one: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=326304 It should be fixed by now. Did you run updates recently? -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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