Bug 103010

Summary:	SuSEconfig asking for password?
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Andreas Klein <asklein>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Ruediger Oertel <ro>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, vetter, werner
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Andreas Klein 2005-08-09 12:44:12 UTC

After installing all packages (except kernel) the following problem occured:

pluto:~ # SuSEconfig
Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool...
Running in full featured mode.
Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.automake...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.cjk-latex...
texhash: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R...
Old Password:

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-09 12:50:31 UTC

Args ... the not existing password of user nobody is expired.
The tetex mktexlsr needs to run ls -R as user nobody if
root is the caller of mktexlsr (e.g. by a cron job).  This
simply to avoid that sensible data files are listed.

IMHO the aaa_base pre/post install scripts should modify
the entry for user nobody in /etc/shadow to the appropiate
values (never expire).

Comment 2 Ruediger Oertel 2005-08-15 16:58:24 UTC

found already in a different bug, which was in YaST2 (pam module) 
fixed.