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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:34:43
Message-Id: 1190056513.15444.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd by Ryan Sims
1 On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:30 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
2 > This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd?
3
4 $ /bin/ls
5 -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/group
7 -rw------- 1 root root 1389 2007-06-30 23:15 /etc/group-
8 -rw------- 1 root root 1203 2007-07-19 18:37 /etc/gshadow
9 -rw------- 1 root root 1190 2007-06-23 09:12 /etc/gshadow-
10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3161 2007-09-12 11:51 /etc/passwd
11 -rw------- 1 root root 3209 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/passwd-
12 -rw------- 1 root root 1233 2007-09-12 20:10 /etc/shadow
13 -rw------- 1 root root 1290 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/shadow-
14 -rws--x--x 1 root root 36944 2007-09-12 10:56 /usr/bin/chage
15
16
17 Actually, /etc/gshadow wasn't root-writable for some reason. I did a
18 'chmod u+w' but still get "chage: can't open password file".
19
20 BTW, this happens whether I'm running as user or root.
21
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Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>