root password still scrambling after install

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veedubmoz · Post by **veedubmoz** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:03 pm

Searched for this topic with to no luck.

Well i just finished a trouble free install of the 2.6-r6 kernel/etc and had set the root password using 'passwd' after chrooting during install.im not a n00b at this and i noticed when i boot up now it is still running the (assumed) init script that says "scrambling root password for security" which now i cant log in with root or su. anyone have a suggestion as to how to remedy that or why that is happening? i looked in conf.d and didnt see any scripts there that looked like they were the culprit.

thanks!

-M0z.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:27 pm

veedubmoz,

Did you leave the liveCD in the drive ?

veedubmoz · Post by **veedubmoz** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:53 pm

nope. it is *definitely* booting on its own. do you know how the password scrambling is initiated? since its one of the last operations it performs during bootup i would assume it is an init script or something..

zieloo · Post by **zieloo** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:08 pm

veedubmoz wrote:nope. it is *definitely* booting on its own. do you know how the password scrambling is initiated? since its one of the last operations it performs during bootup i would assume it is an init script or something..

Look at /etc/init.d/ for hints.
It may have been added somehow (fresh install, don't know home come...) to /etc/conf.d/local.start.

veedubmoz · Post by **veedubmoz** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:27 am

found it... /etc/init.d/pwgen

zieloo · Post by **zieloo** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:49 pm

veedubmoz wrote:found it... /etc/init.d/pwgen

So rc-update del pwgen and N-JOY. [solved]?