From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXQ3Q-0005sV-7e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:31:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8HNLmxn018462; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:21:48 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8HNHBJp013055 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:17:12 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h30so2959637wxd for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:17:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=uGaee97or7B+u8GhDewLnDfs2Wf1u3VdIXpJayC72K0=; b=nPhU8WHyoSpm3mGuC02gC5GqHi/7koBSssFB1BzL6P83v5wM2RAogcTlLGuzjJvofoOrh36cthXRyNBt05YKYQjZHyBTpIPSTh7UZdbEzJ5ZvaePddfUVKWAx9grviPmRTui06HYpRWFrb5atezL5SEAu/in3aAx+l/eAIzyVYI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=upDlCfytwNXCZZGl/KETB1s+8xHxjWX/+m/ajEKadv4t+Ivb58UISXHefOEzMigNO7OWMrYBg0D0BeL/n7fOZ2qFjwjl5J6UkwHeGgU0b1+VBlJ90G+wiefXF0b8DVl72INHZA8vYoxK6avmNI+K7azq/IlULQ1FKuAKxo0En8A= Received: by 10.90.63.16 with SMTP id l16mr3415501aga.1190071030047; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.bensa.ar ( [190.55.44.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s40sm2997744hsb.2007.09.17.16.17.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.bensa.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D725879219; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.bensa.ar ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zeddmore.bensa.ar [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7UWdX4vR09p6; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:17:03 -0300 (ART) Received: from venkman.bensa.ar (venkman.bensa.ar [192.168.1.250]) by smtp.bensa.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC8D879213; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:17:03 -0300 (ART) From: Norberto Bensa To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:17:02 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Albert Hopkins References: <1190041963.18545.13.camel@localhost> <200709172309.11576.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <1190065057.15444.55.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1190065057.15444.55.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709172017.02912.nbensa@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cdc55a6f-372c-4f07-9b45-ad9a8a6a909a X-Archives-Hash: deb226204eb1a7acae8b4aca1507153b Albert Hopkins wrote: > > Regardless of root/non-root I get "chage: can't open password file" Can you cat /etc/passwd? Can you >>/etc/passwd (note it's a double > ) ? Have you ran fsck on / ? Do you run some form of SELinux? Regards, Norberto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list