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.