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On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:09 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> This is different from what you said before. You said that running as |
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> root or as an user made no difference, and in both cases you were |
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> getting "can't open password file". |
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> You never mentioned a "permission |
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> denied" |
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Permission denied is from the strace (the result of the open()). I |
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didn't mention it before because before I didn't run strace before. |
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Regardless of root/non-root I get "chage: can't open password file" |
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> error, which seems correct when running as a regular user. |
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> On my box, running chage as a regular user fails with "permission |
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> denied", but it's not related to /etc/shadow permissions. Instead |
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> (looking at the strace and at the sources), chage checks the real UID |
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> of |
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> the user and terminates if it's not 0 and the user requests to change |
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> the info (instead of just listing it with -l). It does not even touch |
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> any file. |
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> So, if you see chage trying to open /etc/shadow when running as a |
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> regular |
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> user, something must be broken or wrong. What version of shadow are |
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> you |
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> using? Mine is shadow-4.0.18.1-r1. |
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I'm running shadow-4.0.18.1-r1 with "pam" in set as a USE flag. |
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