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Re: [Xen-devel] agent corrupts /etc/shadow in CentOS 6



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On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 16:24 +0100, James King wrote:
> I'm working on an issue we noticed in openstack where setting the root 
> password on a CentOS 6 image through the XenAPI would corrupt the guest 
> image's /etc/shadow file.
> 
> 1. set the root password through XenAPI
> 2. log in to the account
> 3. `passwd` -- you should get an error.
> 
> To fix you can `rm /etc/shadow; pwconv`
> 
> I've tested against an Ubuntu XCP image and everything is fine thereâ seems 
> to only affect CentOS 6
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