Bug 136033 - unable to change password with rescue system
Summary: unable to change password with rescue system
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: 64bit Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-11-30 10:52 UTC by michel munnix
Modified: 2005-12-02 07:24 UTC (History)
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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.