[CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

Samuel Rochas

samuel.rochas at iesedu.com
Fri Feb 1 09:12:40 UTC 2008


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?

Thank you
Samuel






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