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