error opening shadow group file

[Steven Elling]

On Monday 09 December 2002 11:12, Brad Crotchett wrote:
> 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?

See if you can use vipw or vigr.  The '-s' command line flag is used to edit 
the shadow files.

man vipw
man vigr