Hi there everyone everywhere, I created a few groups on my RedHat 6.2 system with password for them. Here is what I did, as root : [root@acolyte01 /root]# groupadd tstgrp [root@acolyte01 /root]# gpasswd tstgrp Changing the password for group tstgrp New Password: Re-enter new password: [root@acolyte01 /root]# Since I have shadow passwords installed, the encrypted password went in /etc/gshadow while the plain text information went to /etc/group (as expected). [root@acolyte01 /root]# cat /etc/gshadow ... tstgrp:/QJRLn.MYst7k:: [root@acolyte01 /root]# cat /etc/group ... tstgrp:x:506: Now my problem : when I try to 'newgrp tstgrp' (on another non-root user), it asks for password but it ALWAYS responds with Permission denied. [root@acolyte01 /root]# su - kexkey [kexkey@acolyte01 kexkey]$ id uid=501(kexkey) gid=501(kexkey) groups=501(kexkey) [kexkey@acolyte01 kexkey]$ newgrp tstgrp Password: newgrp: Permission denied [kexkey@acolyte01 kexkey]$ After investigation, I noticed that newgrp, which calls getgrnam(), seems to look in /etc/group only, not in /etc/gshadow. To verify this, I took the encrypted password in /etc/gshadow and put it in /etc/group. And then what? It worked! Now, I don't want to manually take each group's encrypted password in /etc/gshadow and put it in the world-readable /etc/group file. I tried everything above on my other Linux distribution, and it worked perfectly. Anyone has an idea for my problem? Thank you very much! Etienne Larrivee Acolyte-IT _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
