Hello, everybody,

i need some help.

I post it in the Security Forum but noone got a solution to my problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...at-6-a-901586/

Someone can help me?

It's important.

Thanks

You should not post the same question in more than one forum.

Reading your original thread it appears you got quite a bit of response to it. Not liking the response and/or the extra work implied by such responses is no reason to violate the rules.

Hello everybody,

I decide to follow this solution in order to try to resolve my problem.

I install Red Hat 6 with only a root partition and the minimal installation in order to start the system in console mode.

I got in the Web theses 2 packages :

-shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-9.el6.src.rpm which contains the source code of the binaries (passwd, login, userdel, useradd ...)


-pam-1.1.1-8.el6.src.rpm which contains the source code of the PAM modules (pam_deny, pam_unix, pam_cracklib ...).


In all the source code, i replace all theses occurences :

/etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/gshadow /etc/passwd

by /var/group /var/shadow /var/gshadow /var/passwd.

In order to make it, i use theses commands :

find . -type f | xargs perl -i -pe 's~/etc/passwd~/var/passwd~g'
find . -type f | xargs perl -i -pe 's~/etc/shadow~/var/shadow~g'
find . -type f | xargs perl -i -pe 's~/etc/gshadow~/var/gshadow~g'
find . -type f | xargs perl -i -pe 's~/etc/group~/var/group~g'

After I run the scripts ./configure to get the Makefiles and I execute the command maketo get the new binaries.

I execute the command make install to install all the new binaries (login,passwd, useradd, userdel ...) and the dynamic libraries used by PAM (pam_deny.so, pam_cracklib.so, pam_unix.so ...).

Then I get a look in the repertories /lib/security, the old librairies (pam_deny.so, pam_cracklib.so, pam_unix.so ...) were well replaced bt the new ones (after running the command make install).

And the same thing in the repertories /bin, /usr/bin,/usr/sbin for the binaries passwd, login ,useradd, userdel ...

The last thing that I do was to move the files /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow to /var using these commands :

mv /etc/passwd var
mv /etc/shadow /var
mv /etc/gshadow /var
mv /etc/group /var

Well, i reboot my computer. At the startup Red Hat prints this messages :

Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Starting udev /bin/chown : invalid user : 'root:disk'
/bin/chown : invalid user : 'root:disk'
/bin/chown : invalid user : 'root:lp'
/bin/chown : invalid user : 'root:lp'


And the system is lock.

I can get the prompt login and password.

Anyone have a suggestion ?

Thanks

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