On 9/17/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd? -- Ryan W Sims -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
