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

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:08 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> Check your perms for gshadow:
> 
> $ /bin/ls
> -l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1646 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/group
> -rw------- 1 root root  1630 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/group-
> -rw------- 1 root root  1561 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/group.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1503 2007-04-12 01:31 /etc/gshadow
> -rw------- 1 root root  1491 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/gshadow-
> -rw------- 1 root root  1422 2007-01-21 00:52 /etc/gshadow.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2290 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/passwd
> -rw------- 1 root root  2220 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/passwd-
> -rw------- 1 root root  2131 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/passwd.bak
> -rw------- 1 root root  1174 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/shadow
> -rw------- 1 root root  1143 2007-02-14 01:24 /etc/shadow-
> -rw------- 1 root root  1111 2006-12-12 18:40 /etc/shadow.bak
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 47937 2007-07-03 00:11 /usr/bin/chage
> 

I would think that gshadow, like shadow, should not be world-readable,
as it could potentially contain (group) passwords.  Nevertheless,
changing the permissions doesn't make a difference in my case.


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