[CentOS] Unable to open group file for writing

Peter W. Merritt pwmerritt at weirdwater.org
Tue Aug 22 14:55:10 UTC 2006


Sorry I forgot that.
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 655 Aug 21 21:51 /etc/group
                       Peter
Will McDonald wrote:
> On 22/08/06, Peter W. Merritt <pwmerritt at weirdwater.org> wrote:
>> Hello, Fresh install of 4.3, suddenly I can't modify the group file
>> groupadd: unable to open group file
>> grpck: cannot open file /etc/group
>> removed /etc/group.lock
>>         /etc/gshadow.lock
>>         /etc/.pwd.lock
>> Am I missing something ?
>> Thanks in advance
> 
> What does a simple...
> 
> # ls -l /etc/group
> 
> ... result in? Does the file exists but perhaps have 000 permissions
> or similar?
> 
> Will.
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