[solved] Can't login to user and root after separate drive home...

dzikichrzan · 2018-07-27 17:29:54

Hi. I installed arch linux with three partitions: sdb1 boot, sdb2 root (ssd), sda1 home (hdd).
One partition is on separate disk. Encrypted both, root and home (dmcrypt with luks). Root is launched via bootctl's entry in /boot/loader/entries.
Home is encrypted via record in /etc/crypttab, then added in /etc/fstab (I substituted automatically generated entry from genfstab:

# /dev/mapper/crypthome
UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxx /home ext4 rw,realtime 0 2

to:

/dev/mapper/crypthome /home ext4 default,errors=remount-ro 0 2

After unlocking both drives, I'm on login screen and can't login to my user or even root.
Created user with:

useradd -m -g users -G wheel,games,power,optical,storage,scanner,lp,audio,video -s /bin/zsh user

Obviously both passwords were changed.

Is there something I missed I should do?

Last edited by dzikichrzan (2018-07-27 19:14:33)

jasonwryan · 2018-07-27 17:52:26

Is /home actually getting unlocked? Also, where did you get that useradd comand? None of those groups is necessary...

dzikichrzan · 2018-07-27 18:45:29

I found answer... I couldn't login because my default keyboard had replaced question mark (?) with underscore (_)... This made my password invalid.
Two days of recreating users and encryptions.

Solved... Have a nice drink.

jasonwryan · 2018-07-27 18:52:21

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#1 2018-07-27 17:29:54

[solved] Can't login to user and root after separate drive home...

#2 2018-07-27 17:52:26

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