I'm not sure what happened, but all of a sudden I was unable to add, modify, or delete users. I think it's related to the passwd issue brought up by steve@corp.gulf.net on 1999-05-22. I am using Red Hat 6.1, and it has been stable for about 15 months without any problems like this.
I can't add users. I get a "useradd: unable to open password file". (same error with the adduser command)
The only clue I have is that whenever I try to change a password I get a "Critical error - Immediate abort". Upon looking in the /var/log/messages file, I see these lines:
Mar 4 14:23:51 rover PAM_pwdb[6375]: user (xxx/533) update failed; pwdb: internal failure - seek help
Please advise. I have looked in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and the files look fine. I ran authconfig and was unable to affect any changes because I got the same "Unable to open password file" error.
It doesn't work using Webmin or Linuxconf either.
Thank you...
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