On Monday 17 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:30 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
> > This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd?
>
> $ /bin/ls
> -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1404 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/group
> -rw------- 1 root root  1389 2007-06-30 23:15 /etc/group-
> -rw------- 1 root root  1203 2007-07-19 18:37 /etc/gshadow
> -rw------- 1 root root  1190 2007-06-23 09:12 /etc/gshadow-
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3161 2007-09-12 11:51 /etc/passwd
> -rw------- 1 root root  3209 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/passwd-
> -rw------- 1 root root  1233 2007-09-12 20:10 /etc/shadow
> -rw------- 1 root root  1290 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/shadow-
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 36944 2007-09-12 10:56 /usr/bin/chage
>
>
> Actually, /etc/gshadow wasn't root-writable for some reason.  I did a
> 'chmod u+w' but still get "chage: can't open password file".
>
> BTW, this happens whether I'm running as user or root.

What does stracing the program show?
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