[CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 12:47:30 UTC 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 10:12 AM, Samuel Rochas <samuel.rochas at iesedu.com> wrote:
> 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?

Can you read these two files ?
Do they look corrupted ?

>
> Thank you
> Samuel
>
>
>
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