From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:15:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190056513.15444.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64e8d2f20709171030o64c252bcx2810087e88d35775@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:30 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
> This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd?
$ /bin/ls
-l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/group
-rw------- 1 root root 1389 2007-06-30 23:15 /etc/group-
-rw------- 1 root root 1203 2007-07-19 18:37 /etc/gshadow
-rw------- 1 root root 1190 2007-06-23 09:12 /etc/gshadow-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3161 2007-09-12 11:51 /etc/passwd
-rw------- 1 root root 3209 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/passwd-
-rw------- 1 root root 1233 2007-09-12 20:10 /etc/shadow
-rw------- 1 root root 1290 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/shadow-
-rws--x--x 1 root root 36944 2007-09-12 10:56 /usr/bin/chage
Actually, /etc/gshadow wasn't root-writable for some reason. I did a
'chmod u+w' but still get "chage: can't open password file".
BTW, this happens whether I'm running as user or root.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 15:12 [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd Albert Hopkins
2007-09-17 17:30 ` Ryan Sims
2007-09-17 19:15 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2007-09-17 19:48 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-09-17 20:30 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-17 21:09 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-09-17 21:37 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-17 23:17 ` Norberto Bensa
[not found] ` <1190075689.7101.8.camel@blackwidow.nbk>
[not found] ` <20070917231502.lbzd6wg9wwkwccos@mail.bensa.ar>
2007-09-18 2:59 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-18 3:14 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-09-18 8:14 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-09-18 14:04 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-18 14:07 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-18 21:27 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-18 23:32 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-09-18 23:56 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-19 0:56 ` [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED] Albert Hopkins
2007-09-19 1:08 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-09-19 1:16 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-19 1:47 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-19 2:01 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-09-19 2:33 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-19 2:00 ` Steen Eugen Poulsen
2007-09-18 9:05 ` [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-09-17 17:57 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-09-17 20:08 ` Peter Ruskin
2007-09-17 20:32 ` Albert Hopkins
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