Bug 103010 - SuSEconfig asking for password?
Summary: SuSEconfig asking for password?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: Ruediger Oertel
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Reported: 2005-08-09 12:44 UTC by Andreas Klein
Modified: 2005-08-15 16:58 UTC (History)
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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.