I wanted to install fedora 25 after my defeat to have an encrypted raid install with fedora24 (system cannot shutdown and I filed a bug report with all possible log files as explain in systemd, but up to now nobody cares...) Install of f25 was (almost) easy *but* I am unable to login! I created a user with a password but when I want to login system claims that the password is incorrect. OK maybe I made a mistake, so I try to login as root from the console : password is incorrect too! I try to rescue the system: it takes ages to accept the passphrase for encrypted /home (why does the recue need to mount /home?????) After that, I am unable to set a new root password: if I ask "chpasswd" the answer is: "missing new password on line 1" (of course I can see my new password... but "missing new password..." If I ask passwd, I have 1 second to type the password before falling back to prompt... So I can't type anything! WHAT A MESS! -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

Firstly, its NOT chpasswd but root@localhost # password and / or root@localhost # passwd {USERNAME}

Secondly, /home has possible USER SPECIFIC pam.d/ sshd/ gnupg/ and other assorted configs that can be VERY relevant for a rescue system.

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