On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 03:14:52 -0700 Linda Walsh wrote: 8< - - - - - trimmed - - - - - >8
I was able to work around the problem, but that doesn't explain why passwd would fail or how it *could* fail. If I am root, how can it fail before anything is typed?
Looking around on the web, I only see references to that message w/r/t a user typing the wrong passwd to change their own password -- amusingly, it was said that becoming root could be used to fix the problem if the user's password didn't work or had been forgotten, since such a problem can't affect root which should never get the error.
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Wrong permissions (ACLs?) or corrupted file, or filesystem corruption underlying a corrupted file? :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org