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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:30:45 -0400
From: "Ryan Sims" <rwsims@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd
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On 9/17/07, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> 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?
This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd?
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Ryan W Sims
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