I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a
user or as root I cannot run chage:
$ chage -l marduk
chage: can't open password file
I've looked at /etc/passwd*, /etc/shadow* /etc/group* and /etc/gshadow*
and all the permissions look fine. It works on other machines. I even
tried re-emerging the shadow package, but still get the same error.
I tried running pwck thinking the password file was somehow currupt.
pwck only complains about users with invalid home directories/shells.
Oddly enough, 'pwck' runs w/o errors, but 'pwck -r' (read-only) gives.
pwck: cannot open file /etc/passwd
syslog shows:
Sep 17 10:07:49 [chage] failed opening /etc/passwd
I'm at a loss. Rebooting makes no difference. passwd seems to work
fine. I can open /etc/passwd myself (as root and user) just fine. Anyone
got any clues?
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