error opening shadow group file

[Brad Crotchett]

So can I uninstall and resinstall the shadow package without screwing up
anything on my system?

Thanks,

Brad

-----Forwarded Message-----

> From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
> To: Brad Crotchett <brad at ispn.net>
> Subject: Re: error opening shadow group file
> Date: 09 Dec 2002 11:27:29 -0600
> 
> Sounds like something in the shadow package is not installed correctly.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Crotchett" <brad at ispn.net>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:12 AM
> Subject: RE: error opening shadow group file
> 
> 
> > I am still stuck on this problem.  I can open all of the user files in
> > /etc (passwd, shadow, shadow-, group, gshadow, group-, and gshadow-),
> > but when I try to save something to gshadow it tells me that it is a
> > read only file.
> >
> > The system will not allow me to change any permissions on gshadow, nor
> > will it let me delete it to remake the file.  I have searched the web
> > and found nothing that resembles my problem.
> >
> > I cannot see where any process is using the file (fuser).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> >
> > > From: Brad Crotchett <brad at ispn.net>
> > > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > > Subject: RE: error opening shadow group file
> > > Date: 06 Dec 2002 16:51:28 -0600
> > >
> > > OK, I removed the type= and I am getting the same thing.  This is really
> > > strange.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 16:37, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> > > > > The contents of /etc/pam.d/system-auth are as follows:
> > > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > > account     required      /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> > > > >
> > > > > password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> type=
> > > >
> > > > Is there supposed to be something there after 'type='? Everything
> looks the same
> > > > as mine except for that 'type=' part. Try removing that so it reads:
> > > >
> > > > password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure that's the problem though... :-{ I'll do some more
> research and see
> > > > what I come up with.
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