[CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

Samuel Rochas samuel.rochas at iesedu.com
Fri Feb 1 13:01:18 UTC 2008


Hi,

My answers:
df gives me 41% use of the disk.
I can create and copy files on the disk.

Both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow looks fine to me.

Disk physical error? Might be, how do I check that?

Samuel

Marcelo Roccasalva escribió:
> On Feb 1, 2008 7:12 AM, Samuel Rochas <samuel.rochas at iesedu.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I run Centos 4.
>>
>> I can't add users using the adduser command, I get this error:
>> adduser: cannot rewrite shadow password file
>>
>> I can't change the users passwords with passwd, I get this error:
>> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>>
>> What is wrong?
>>     
>
> root filesystem full or read only? disk physical errors?
>
>   

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