[CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

Fri Feb 1 12:42:52 UTC 2008
Marcelo Roccasalva <marcelo-centos at irrigacion.gov.ar>

On Feb 1, 2008 7:12 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?

root filesystem full or read only? disk physical errors?

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