On 5/23/07, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > > This very much smells like a permissions error. Did you muck with > /etc/ at all when you were moving things around? > > You might want to try something like 'rpm -V setup' or even 'rpm -Va > > whatsbroke.txt' > > The output of these commands will tell you if anything has been > changed for the setup package (which has the password files) or all > rpms respectively. If,as root, you cannot manipulate a user's password > with 'passwd userfoo' then it's probably a permissions error on > /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow > I looked at them (as root) and even removed a password from the shadow file for one user to see if that made a difference. What you say sounds probable, and I'll keep this for reference should the issue come up again (or just to see what it should look like on a normal system). Unfortunately, I don't have any more time to fix this - I need the system up and working a.s.a.p., so I'm reinstalling it, with care.... Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-680-3001 - fax