Re: [coLinux-users] problem with usermod

[Holger K. <hol...@gm...>]

That is not a problem of a "dos" shell, as there is no such thing with colinux.
The reason behind my assumption is, that the unix passwd mechanism only uses 8 chars if the crypt algorithm is used.
Try entering only motorbej as password.


Ales Pavel schrieb:
> uuuuuu stupid  "dos" shell....of course... what now:-(
> 
> Holger Krull napsal(a):
>> Ales Pavel schrieb:
>>> I installed and portaged coLinux and gentoo 2.6, all was OK. But I 
>>> try change password root to motorbejk and when I tried write
>>>
>>> usermod -p motorbejk root
>>>
>>> I have problem with login:-( what I can do? Where is problem?
>>>
>> Just a guess, password is to long, maybe only 8 valid chars.