Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

[Peter Ruskin]

On Monday 17 September 2007, Albert Hopkins 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.

Check your perms for gshadow:

$ /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1646 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/group
-rw------- 1 root root  1630 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/group-
-rw------- 1 root root  1561 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/group.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1503 2007-04-12 01:31 /etc/gshadow
-rw------- 1 root root  1491 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/gshadow-
-rw------- 1 root root  1422 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/gshadow.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2290 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/passwd
-rw------- 1 root root  2220 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/passwd-
-rw------- 1 root root  2131 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/passwd.bak
-rw------- 1 root root  1174 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/shadow
-rw------- 1 root root  1143 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/shadow-
-rw------- 1 root root  1111 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/shadow.bak
-rws--x--x 1 root root 47937 2007-07-03 00:11 /usr/bin/chage

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Peter
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