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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 20:50:14
Message-Id: 1190061165.15444.47.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd by Peter Ruskin
1 On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:08 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
2 > Check your perms for gshadow:
3 >
4 > $ /bin/ls
5 > -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1646 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/group
7 > -rw------- 1 root root 1630 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/group-
8 > -rw------- 1 root root 1561 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/group.bak
9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1503 2007-04-12 01:31 /etc/gshadow
10 > -rw------- 1 root root 1491 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/gshadow-
11 > -rw------- 1 root root 1422 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/gshadow.bak
12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2290 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/passwd
13 > -rw------- 1 root root 2220 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/passwd-
14 > -rw------- 1 root root 2131 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/passwd.bak
15 > -rw------- 1 root root 1174 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/shadow
16 > -rw------- 1 root root 1143 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/shadow-
17 > -rw------- 1 root root 1111 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/shadow.bak
18 > -rws--x--x 1 root root 47937 2007-07-03 00:11 /usr/bin/chage
19 >
20
21 I would think that gshadow, like shadow, should not be world-readable,
22 as it could potentially contain (group) passwords. Nevertheless,
23 changing the permissions doesn't make a difference in my case.
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