Recently I have gotten the following errors when I try to make a liveslak distro with the make_slackware_live.sh script:

-- Configuring the base system.
chpasswd: (user root) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
Authentication token manipulation error
chpasswd: (line 1, user root) password not changed
*** ./make_slackware_live.sh FAILED at line 1470 ***

I tried to build this on a current Slackware system (as of Sep 21 2020), but since this seems to be a PAM issue, I also tried to build it on a Slackware 14.2 system which doesn't have PAM, but I get the same error.

There are especially two issues that confuse me: 1) Why am I getting PAM errors on 14.2 which doesn't have PAM? and 2) Why am I only getting this error when it tries to build base, building other package sets works just fine...

I welcome discussions about liveslak on my blog but I do not think that the Slackware forum is the best place for this.
One question: do you use an un-modified set of scripts or are you customizing them?

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I wasn't sure where to post this either... In any case, your question revealed where the problem was. I assumed this was a kernel issue, but I rebuilt a vanila liveslak and it worked fine on both current and 14.2. Clearly I have messed up my custom liveslak in some way, but now I know where to look

And let me just tank you for the fine work you are doing in the community. I have already used your liveslak script to create custom Slackware spins in the past, its great!