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Bug 186727 - gpasswd on stork fails due to missing permissions
Summary: gpasswd on stork fails due to missing permissions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
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Reported: 2007-07-26 20:20 UTC by Christian Heim (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-07-27 19:13 UTC (History)
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Description Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-26 20:20:45 UTC 
stork ~ [0] $ gpasswd -a diox cvs
gpasswd: Permission denied.
Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2007-07-27 01:19:14 UTC 
resolved now.
/etc/gshadow was messed up.
Comment 2 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-27 08:48:41 UTC 
Hmm.  Last time I cleaned that file was during the move from lark to stork.

Just out of interest, did you use /usr/sbin/grpck for fixing the file?
Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-27 15:14:11 UTC 
One day I noticed that the gshadow file contained : vs , anywhere it had beejay's name. I cleaned that up however. I wonder if there were other cases of : in the file where it should of not been. Was that the case robbat2?
Comment 4 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2007-07-27 19:13:54 UTC 
solar: ~20 groups in total had only 3 fields.

pylon: no, I fixed by hand. grpck gives lot of additional output, i'll run thru that later.