So wrote sean finney on Wednesday, 29 June 2005: > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:41 -0400 > From: sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#316271: nagios install fails "chage: > can't open shadow password fileadduser" > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:14:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No not running in a chroot. I have not changed nsswitch nor any ldap or > > nis settings for pam. > > hmm... well, and a few more questions then :) > > are you not using shadow passwords? > is there anything strange with your shadow file? > what's your pam configuration? > does chage similarly complain from the cmdline for other users? > >
Well that was the problem: I installed Debian fresh on this system using the Sarge RC installer back in December I think. When it configured passwd it never even asked me if I wanted shadow passwords and I forgot about it. So shadow passwords were not being used on the system. I just ran 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd' and enabled shadow passwords. Now nagios installs fine. -- daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
