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On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 |
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> open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = 3 |
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> chage: can't open password file |
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Since the opens succeed, this must be some other kind of error. |
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Looking at the sources could possibily help here. |
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In chage.c, the message is printed if the function pw_open() returns a |
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nonzero value. |
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Following che chain of function calls, we arrive at commonio_open() |
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(inside commonio.c). That function can fail for various reasons. The |
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file is opened correctly, so the error has to be searched after the |
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fopen(). Excluding failure of the various memory-allocation functions, |
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the other likely possibilities involve some failure during parsing |
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(which here is done manually, not with the usual getpwent() and co.). |
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Double check your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for syntactical |
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correctness. I'd ask you to remove sensible information and post them |
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here, but the cleanup could possibly also remove the information that |
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chage's parser doesn't like, so check them on your own. |
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