Bug 136033

Summary:	unable to change password with rescue system
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	michel munnix <michel.munnix>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description michel munnix 2005-11-30 10:52:01 UTC

when trying to recover root password with:
passwd -P /mnt/etc
when root file system mounted on /mnt
we get this error:
cannot open logging pluggin:
/usr/lib64/pwdutils/liblog_syslog.so.1: cannot open shared object file
passwd -P flag not supported in this mode

Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-12-02 07:24:31 UTC

As you cannot change the password when useing the -P option as passwd prints, this is clearly a pilot error and no bug. PAM does ont allow this.

Use chroot.