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On Monday 17 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a |
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> user or as root I cannot run chage: |
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> $ chage -l marduk |
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> chage: can't open password file |
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> I've looked at /etc/passwd*, /etc/shadow* /etc/group* and |
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> /etc/gshadow* and all the permissions look fine. It works on other |
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> machines. I even tried re-emerging the shadow package, but still get |
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> the same error. |
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> I tried running pwck thinking the password file was somehow currupt. |
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> pwck only complains about users with invalid home directories/shells. |
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> Oddly enough, 'pwck' runs w/o errors, but 'pwck -r' (read-only) gives. |
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> pwck: cannot open file /etc/passwd |
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> syslog shows: |
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> Sep 17 10:07:49 [chage] failed opening /etc/passwd |
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> I'm at a loss. Rebooting makes no difference. passwd seems to work |
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> fine. I can open /etc/passwd myself (as root and user) just fine. |
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> Anyone got any clues? |
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Is /usr/bin/chage suid root? |
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