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TheDarkBomber / lirix

Scripts for building and installing the Lirix distribution
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Cannot log into default account or created account. Incorrect password. #2

Closed soitchy closed 10 months ago

soitchy commented 10 months ago

Testing on VirtualBox currently, after an EZInstall, I cannot log into either the default main user aamoo with the default password, nor can I log into a created account. The log in manager just says "Your password is incorrect. Please try again."

I am sure I am typing the passwords correct. I used almost all default options during the EZInstall. Using the US keyboard layout and tried with simple QWERTY safe passwords. No luck.

I booted into root and verified that both users are in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

From root, I switched to the user account and changed the password via passwd. Rebooting and attempting to log in results in the same error.

soitchy commented 10 months ago

Some additional info after digging.

After chrooting into the install and creating a root password, I can log in to the root user.

From the log in screen, using ctrl + alt + F2 to revert to tty2, I can log in with the root user. I cannot log in to any other user in tty2.

I have tried creating new users with useradd and still cannot log into these users in tty2 nor the log in manager.

Looking at the journal, I don't see any strangeness during the login attempts other than "authentication failure."

soitchy commented 10 months ago

I have solved the issue. Users do not have a valid login shell assigned to them.

For anyone in the future that has this problem:

To change the login shell, chroot into the partition with Lirix or log into a root account then run the command chsh -s /bin/bash $user where $user refers to your user account name. Reboot. You should be able to log into your user account now.

mood-fm commented 9 months ago

Could you elaborate, in detail, on what it is you did to make it work? In particular, could you explain in a way someone with limited experience on Linux could understand?