Re: Shawdow passwords only half there

[Michael Jinks <michael twopoint com>]

Paul Waldo wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Red Hat 5.2 with shadow passwords installed.  I have run
> the password and group conversion utilities, so I know have the files
> /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow
> I manually set the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file's permission to 600.

I think this is your problem.  The passwd file can only be read by the
owner (root), and when you are some other user, you're locked out.  On
my machine, /etc/passwd has permissions 644.


> Most things work now.  For example I can log on (which is a good thing
> :-)  But other things are broken, for example:
> 
> [I have no name! delphi /etc]$ whoami
> whoami: cannot find username for UID 500
> 
> I have run strace on the whoami command and found that it is trying to
> look at /etc/passwd.  Is there something else that I need to do to get
> shadow passwords working fully?  TIA
> 
> Paul
> 
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