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

[Albert Hopkins]

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.

I tried running pwck thinking the password file was somehow currupt.
pwck only complains about users with invalid home directories/shells.
Oddly enough, 'pwck' runs w/o errors, but 'pwck -r' (read-only) gives.

        pwck: cannot open file /etc/passwd


syslog shows:
        Sep 17 10:07:49 [chage] failed opening /etc/passwd

I'm at a loss.  Rebooting makes no difference.  passwd seems to work
fine. I can open /etc/passwd myself (as root and user) just fine. Anyone
got any clues?




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