{"id":1137,"date":"2011-10-18T01:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2011-10-18T01:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:34:04","slug":"authentication-token-manipulation-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Authentication Token Manipulation Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>if u are running shadowed passwords it might be theres no entry for this user. make a backup of \/etc\/shadow, delete \/etc\/shadow and convert \/etc\/passwd using pwconvert.same goes for \/etc\/groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxquestions.org\/questions\/linux-security-4\/authentication-token-manipulation-error-2813\/\">Authentication Token Manipulation Error<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I got this error when logging in as root into a system that I think was badly installed (by me).\u00a0 Anyway, this fixed that problem.\u00a0 I found it interesting that this came up #1 on the google search and it&#8217;s an entry dated May 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The linux command pwconv replaced pwconvert sometime during these last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Note2:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mohammednv.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/08\/authentication-token-manipulation-error-when-changing-user-passwords-in-linux\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a more modern (3 years old) explanation tmhat I found useful.<\/p>\n<p>Note3: I still had to do a complete reinstall since a lot of things went haywire.\u00a0 I probably shouldn&#8217;t have been playing with hot swapping while the install was in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Update:I don&#8217;t think the kernel likes this motherboard.\u00a0 Second install failed.\u00a0 Have to resort to compiling a kernel by hand.\u00a0 What started out as a simple hour long task will now take all night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if u are running shadowed passwords it might be theres no entry for this user. make a backup of \/etc\/shadow, delete \/etc\/shadow and convert \/etc\/passwd using pwconvert.same goes for \/etc\/groups. via Authentication Token Manipulation Error. I got this error when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[28,72],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-linux-command","tag-problem-solved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}