On 5/23/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Also, I cannot manipulate passwords at all. When I try to set a user password using the users and groups applet, it hangs. When I try to set a user password from the root login via passwd <user>, I always get an authentication failure. Does that clarify the problem to anyone else?
This very much smells like a permissions error. Did you muck with /etc/ at all when you were moving things around? You might want to try something like 'rpm -V setup' or even 'rpm -Va > whatsbroke.txt' The output of these commands will tell you if anything has been changed for the setup package (which has the password files) or all rpms respectively. If,as root, you cannot manipulate a user's password with 'passwd userfoo' then it's probably a permissions error on /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
