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Re: Error opening /etc/shadow for reading



Goran Dobosevic wrote:

> 
> 
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Wed,29.Oct.08, 09:51:43, Goran Dobosevic wrote:
>>    
>>   
>>> no, before few days yes.
>>>     
>>
>> Somebody who knows KDE might help here.
>>
>>   
>>> permissions of  /etc/shadow are defolt i don't know how to changed them
>>> :-)
>>>     
>>
>> Just to make sure everything is as it should be. Please show the output
>> of 'ls -l /etc/shadow'.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrei
>>   
> Here it is:
> ~# ls -l /etc/shadow
> -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 850 2008-10-24 13:31 /etc/shadow
> 
> Regards,
> Goran.
> 

you shouldn't edit /etc/shadow at your own

if you need to edit a file owned by root under kde use kdesudo in the
konsole

kdesudo kedit /etc/shadow

/etc/shadow should be manipulated with the passwd utilities

in kde control centre you have user management, this should do the job for
you

regards


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