On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM Meikel <meikel@xxxxx> wrote: > > If the above looks good, try adding a new user and see if you can > > login as that user. > > It is not clear to me how I can do this, as I'm only able to start from > a live media. If I run something like "useradd" this will add a user on > the live media, but not on the installed system on the disk. As far as I > know I need to chroot into the existing installation from the live > media, but I never did that. With a quick search on the internet I found > a sample script "Setting up chroot from a live image in Fedora. > Regenerate grub2 for Fedora." > (https://gist.github.com/Tamal/73e65bfb0e883e438310c5fe81c5de14) and I'm > wondering if I could use this as a starting point? You can: - useradd --root absolute-dirname - chroot - edit the files directly Other thoughts as to things to check.... - expired passwords - bad character in the password field in /etc/passwd [1] - something messed-up with PAM - can't help much there [1] Many years ago I supported a Unix system where suddenly account passwords weren't working. IIRC the passwords were set to "*" instead of "x". I assume there was an update of some sort and prior to the update it accepted "*" as "use shadow", but after the update it insisted on "x". It was a long time ago, and I may not be remembering the details correctly. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
