On Monday 17 September 2007, Albert Hopkins 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?
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