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Hello, Fresh install of 4.3, suddenly I can't modify the group file groupadd: unable to open group file grpck: cannot open file /etc/group removed /etc/group.lock /etc/gshadow.lock /etc/.pwd.lock Am I missing something ? Thanks in advance Peter

...relevant commands that they need to know about, in the sense of, "if you understand these commands, you should be fine." regarding user/group admin, my tentative list of commands would be: * user{add,mod,del} * group(add,mod,del} * passwd, gpasswd * chage, chsh, chfn * pwck, grpck * pwconv, pwunconv not sure what i'm missing here, i just typed those off the top of my head. rather than scatter all of that over an entire chapter, are there any official centos/rhel reference sheets like that? if not, i can just write my own and post them at my wiki. thanks for any poi...

Hello, I have a very weird problem on a CentOS 5.2 system. A few months ago, encrypted passwords in the shadow file were MD5'ed - allowing for long passwords, rather than only 8 characters max. Today, passwords are 3DES'ed only. No way to find how the system reverted to DES-encrypting. But what's more bothersome is we cannot get the system to go the MD5 way again, despite all our best

Is there a program on CentOS which will sort my passwd/group etc. files by username or uid/gid? On Suse I can do this with a sysconfig switch and Suseconfig, is there something similar on RH-based systems? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

I've been copying old passwd/shadow/group files from system to system for ages across different distributions/updates and would like to get them back in sync with each other so the system tools will work. Now they hang like: #userdel irose hangs forever, syslog says: Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete user `irose' Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete `irose'