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Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

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Shadow.service fails in combination with encrypted home partition.

Hey,

Recently I have done a fresh installation and chose to encrypt my home partition with dm-crypt. I unencrypt it at login via pam_mount, which makes my home directory unavailable during system boot. This is causing the shadow.service to fail:

┌─jente @ ~ 23:12:39 
└─╼ systemctl status -l shadow
● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since za 2014-08-09 21:38:13 CEST; 1h 34min ago
  Process: 194 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=2)
 Main PID: 194 (code=exited, status=2)

aug 09 21:38:20 edge pwck[194]: user 'jente': directory '/home/jente' does not exist
aug 09 21:38:20 edge pwck[194]: pwck: no changes

I have looked around a bit on the web, but haven't come across anything similar. Can I fix this?

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cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: Shadow.service fails in combination with encrypted home partition.

Don't you have a directory there which you then use as a mount point? Then the directory would exist even though nothing was mounted. (I doubt the check looks at the contents - as far as I can tell from the manual page, it just checks the directory exists.) For example, /home exists on my root partition but as an empty directory. Only when the relevant stuff is mounted does /home actually contain anything.

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Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

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Re: Shadow.service fails in combination with encrypted home partition.

I encrypted /home in itself instead of just /home/jente.

I suppose I can just change the mountpoints and create /home myself to solve this then? It's simple, I hadn't thought of it yet

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pgrond

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Registered: 2011-06-27

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Re: Shadow.service fails in combination with encrypted home partition.

I have the same problem but I don't quite get how you changed the mount points. Sorry to sound dumb, but could you point me in the right direction?