[CentOS] Unable to open group file for writing

Tue Aug 22 07:50:50 UTC 2006
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

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.