I'm all but certain I got the /dev mount line right, but I won't know until I can get to my research machine again for another..nearly 18 hours.
You'd of course be right about /etc/passed and /etc/shadow, I almost never deal with user accounts and thus confused what I was looking at. Good catch.
I'm glad I got it working on my thinkpad though, that at least dispels my theory it was somehow tmpfs related. I MUST have done something wrong in my setup on the big machine...
Thanks for the replies
On 2016-04-22 08:31, Steve Volumetric wrote:
I apologize if this is the wrong place for this, but I'm trying to understand an issue I'm running into.
For educational purposes, I'm trying to install Crux 3.2 onto a ramdisk, naturally I know everything will disappear upon reboot, but I'm not worried about that - i'm just trying to see what can be done.
Going from the Official Crux 3.2 install guide, I go through all the same steps I generally follow, except to establish /mnt I do:
mount -t tmpfs -o size=8gb tmpfs /mnt
I can run the setup, I can setup-chroot, but I can't passwd
when I do passwd, it immediately tells me:
Changing password for root
Enter the new password (minimum of 5 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Bad password: too short.
Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway)
passwd: password changed.
but I don't even have a chance to type anything, it just does all of that at once.
You probably skipped this command from the install guide:
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
When I look in /etc/passwd I can see a line for root, but no password, unsurprisingly.
Unsurprising indeed, since the password should be in /etc/shadow ;)
Regards,
Alan