On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:09 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > This is different from what you said before. You said that running as > root or as an user made no difference, and in both cases you were > getting "can't open password file". > You never mentioned a "permission > denied"
Permission denied is from the strace (the result of the open()). I didn't mention it before because before I didn't run strace before. Regardless of root/non-root I get "chage: can't open password file" > error, which seems correct when running as a regular user. > On my box, running chage as a regular user fails with "permission > denied", but it's not related to /etc/shadow permissions. Instead > (looking at the strace and at the sources), chage checks the real UID > of > the user and terminates if it's not 0 and the user requests to change > the info (instead of just listing it with -l). It does not even touch > any file. > So, if you see chage trying to open /etc/shadow when running as a > regular > user, something must be broken or wrong. What version of shadow are > you > using? Mine is shadow-4.0.18.1-r1. I'm running shadow-4.0.18.1-r1 with "pam" in set as a USE flag. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
